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Gin gwai (2002)
Boring...
I was eager to see this movie after reading the users' comments here but it did really disappoint me... The story is quite simple, it's very easy to find what's going to happen all the time and there wasn't anything new in this film. The final was really predictable, as soon as I saw they got stuck in the traffic jam I knew what was going to happen... And it made me think of "6th sense"...
It seems users from UK like it a lot, maybe it's a cultural thing... In Britain its an over 15 year old movie, while in Spain is for over 7 year old... :-)
En la ciudad sin límites (2002)
A thriller on feelings
An old man is dying of cancer in a hospital, but he has something to do first. He doesn't trust no one in his family (who has gathered around him in hospital) but his younger son, Victor, who just arrived from Argentina. He is the only one to notice that something's weird with his father...
Hollywood-like thrillers are serving as a cover to introduce deep, human-relation movies to the public. We've seen it in Lantana for instance. The big misteries, the fantastic intrigues we've seen so many times in conventional American movies are here changed for feelings. Although the movie develops as a thriller, with its intrigues and misteries, at the end we see that there's no bigger mistery than human relationships.
A very good way of wrapping a typical intimist European or Asian movie with an American-style thriller cover.
Conte d'automne (1998)
Not as good as I hoped
Although the movie is enjoyable enough, I didn't like it very much. First of all, it takes a long time to go to the point, making the start of the movie a bit boring.
The relationships between the characters are a bit funny and the way they behave too. Or maybe French people are like that in real life? (just joking).
Anyway, when the main plot starts, the movie is quite enjoyable. I liked the character of Isabelle (the best actress in the movie for me). I didn't understand Rosine nor Magalie, maybe they were too deep for me (or very shallow perhaps).