My foreign film festival continues.
Tonight I watched a Korean film called Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring.

I'm still mulling it over in my mind, so I guess I really don't have much to say about it - except that I think it's a really powerful film. I'm admittedly feeling a little hormonal, and I totally cried my way through the Winter part. :(

The synopses I've read make it sound really simple - there's a monk on an island in a lake who raises a little boy. The seasons mirror the phases of life. No big rocket science there. It's ...

Oh, just rent it and watch it, if you think of it. :P

Here's the Amazon link. I think the second "Spotlight Review" does a pretty good job of explaining it. :)

There is a site for the movie itself, but it's an annoyingly cryptic Flash site. I don't know what gets into movie studios when it comes to web sites. *sigh*

I'm having a foreign film festival with my Netflix account. Tonight I watched Travellers and Magicians.

One of the characters is a girl who just graduated from school. She finds out that the protagonist wants to go to America, and she remarks, "I heard they don't even know where Bhutan is."

Ouch. Touche. I happened to know purely because I looked it up when I added the movie to my queue. :P

I enjoyed the movie. It's a story within a story movie. The characters were three dimensional and interesting - no complaints there. :)

But the thing that interested me the most were the clothes. There's a Buddhist monk, and his clothes were the three brightest shades of orange I think I've ever seen. :P One of the characters weaves cloth, and I just could not keep my eyes off of the cloth after the close-up of the loom that revealed all the detail in the cloth. From a distance, the garments look like striped togas. Up close, you realize that there are tiny little patterns created out of the strands of the fabric itself. It's quite incredible. They don't really do it justice, but here are some pictures of fabric made in Bhutan.

Oh yeah!
I'm sick, so I'm kind of bleary, and I just now remembered that I watched another movie today. Mew.

( Click to read about a camel movie )

This movie r0x0r.
It made total sense and was plausible from beginning to end, which is a big deal to me and often lacking in big-budget blockbusters. *ahem*
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