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.