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.

Khuda Ke Liye

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1068956. A fairly decent Pakistani movie on religious fanaticism. I thought there were two stories: A musician from wealthy pakistani family goes to Chicago school of music, just before 9/11. He gets picked up, tortured and eventually deported in vegetable condition. The other story is about his brother, who turns jihadi, kidnaps to Afghanistan and marries a cousin from UK at her father's request so she does not marry a "gora" but eventually has to give in because of foreign pressure -- as in apache helicopters. Naseer's role is publicized but he only comes in in the end, as a sensible cleric who speaks on behalf of the woman. 6/10.

Dark Harbor

Now this was a really bad movie. Man gets his boy friend to seduce his wife so they can kill her and live happily ever after. 3/10