Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053666, a gripping movie but I could not figure out the end. Story of four girls working in an appliance store. One likes to party and screw middle aged men behind her soldier boy-friends back, another that sings in a shady place without telling her friends, a third that has a pretentious boy-friend (huh?) and a fourth that falls in love with a mysterious bike rider who takes her to an abandoned places, strangles her leaving behind a bunch of clues.

What? Where's the story? 3/10

Broken Flowers (2005)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412019. Bill Murray bachelor a who retired after having made his money in "computers " gets a letter from unknown ex-girlfriend that he has a son who is coming to look for him. Before the said son can find him he goes on a search for the potential mother. He meets four exes, who have decreasing levels of affection for him --- the first he has sex with (after ignoring her teenage daughter called Lolita (really) who appears before him in the buff) deteriorating to getting hit by the biker friend of the fourth. And he returns, without him or us finding out who the mother is. And the movie ends soon thereafter, without him or us finding out who the son is.

It is a comedy but in a strange weird way. Like the the tween next to him in a plane that has a toy horse that neighs rather loudly. I couldn't stop laughing at Bill's reaction to that, but I don't know why that was so funny.

6/10

Un secret

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490234. A man talks about a shocking secret he learned when he was young. But he still loves both his parents and the love each other. 6/10

4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle

I don't even know whether I like liked or disliked this Eric Rohmer episodic movie about a country girl and city girl. I think I enjoyed it. 6/10.

A Wednesday

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1280558/. Saw this in theater some time back. The best movie on terrorism in general and bombings-in-city
in particular that I have seen in a long long time. Far far superior to Amir and Khuda Ke Liye and definitely better then Black Friday, because this is fiction. 8.5/10.

Talaye sorkh (2003)

Crimson Gold is the first film I have seen of director Jafar Panahi, but the writer is Abbas Kiarostami. This may be blasphemy, but I might be getting tired of movies-without-stories nature of Iranian movies. The movie is well made and the lead actor Hossain Emadeddin is very good. He is supposed to be a very likable chracter, but I didn't find him particularly so. I am not clear why a frail looking rich guy would invite a BIG pizaa delivery man to inside his palatial apartment to share dinner. Maybe these things happen.

Maybe need for a while to see movies that have a beginning, a middle and an end.

Un été inoubliable

AkA An Unforgettable Summer. A young Romanian army captain's wife is, err, approached, by a senior office during a Ball. Her playful ridicule earns her husband duty at the Bulgarian border. Once there, she tries to make friends with Bulgarians peasants captured. The high command orders their execution, which her husband refuses to comply with.

The same senior office visits the post in person, give a last chance offer to the captain. The captain still refuses, but the executions happen anyway. The army captain is called back to the base and given a hard time.

When the same senior office came to the border, I half expected the wife to offer herself so as to save the peasant's lives. Perhaps the initial scene was there to make audience expect that.

Fairly decent movie. Very pretty woman good acting by both her (Kristin Scott Thomas) and her husband Claudiu Bleont). 6.5/10.