Significant Films seen during May-June, 2012

--Woodlanders

--Under the Greenwood Tree

--Crucible

--Dhobi Ghat

--First Grader

--The Rebound

--The Women on the Sixth Floor (French)

--As it is in heaven (Swedish)--About a successful composer returning to his village to transform people with

       his music.

--Koyla 

--Heart burn (Meryl Streep & Jack Nicholson)

--Witnesses (Croatian/Serbian)

--A Year of quiet sun (Zanussi's Polish movie)

--Man of La Mancha (Peter O'Tool and Sophia Loren)--a Musical which will stay with me

--Sunflower (Sophia Loren & Marcello Mastrionni)

--Scent of the Green Papaya (Japanese)

--Can GoThrough Skin (Norwegian)--abt a rape victim's trauma & restoration

--Heaven (Kate Blanchet)--abt someone who inadvertently kills 4 innocent people & is helped to escape 

        from law from a law-enforcing officer

--Bliss (Turkish)

--How to steal a million (Peter O'Tool  & Audrey Hepburt)--an oldie that is a light comedy

--588 Rue Paradis (French)--abt an Armenian writer's steadfast loyalties to his parents

--Chopin, Desire for love (French)--Abt the tortured relationship between George Sand and Chopin

--Kabai, Mother (Japanese)

--Yeh Mumbai Mere Jaan (surprisingly good)

--Red Balloon (Oscar nominee)--a simple half-hr documentary like movie

--Lemon Tree (Israeli film about the struggle of a Palestinian woman's struggle to protect her lemon grove 

        being taken over by the military.

--Cinema Paradiso (Italian)--This will stay too.

--A son for Martin (Swedish)--Abt an old composer's love/marriage with a middleaged violinist and how 

     they come to grief because of his alzemier

--Doc Martin

--Troubled Water (abt ex-con trying to settle as an organ player but his troubled past haunts him.

--Light of my Eyes (Italian)--abt a single mother's struggles to cope with financial problems and her being 

       rescued by a younger person who falls in love with her

--Winter's bone--abt a young girl trying to take care of her destitute mother & yo9unger siblings

--My piece of pie (French)--abt laid off factory worker avenging the closure of her factory on the 

      rich stock-broker who had caused the closure.          

Wings of the Dove (seen on 18 June)

Seen on 18 June 201
Based on Henry James' novel, this was about an impoverished girl seeking the rich privileged life,  barters her own love and repents at the end. Touching.  I liked it.

My Piece of the Pie (French) 

Seen on June 17, 2012

This Cedric Klapitch film was engaging.  It's about a single mother with 4 growing kids losing her 20-yr job in a massing lay off of her company caused by the machinations of a rich profiteering stock broker.  And when she gets her chance to avenge on working for this guy as a housekeeper she seizes the opportunity.