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Swimming Pool

By CJ on January 28, 2006 12:00 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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  • Cast:
    Charlotte Rampling ... Sarah Morton
    Ludivine Sagnier ... Julie
    Charles Dance ... John Bosload
    Jean-Marie Lamour ... Franck
    Marc Fayolle ... Marcel
    Mireille Mossé ... Marcel's Daughter
  • Director:
    François Ozon
  • Genre:
    Drama / Mystery / Thrille
  • Plot Outline
    A British mystery author (Rampling) visits her publisher's (Dance) home in the South of France, where her interaction with his unusual daughter (Sagnier) sets off some touchy dynamics.
  • Comment
    It was a much better film than I was expecting.   The twist is very nice, I think it works on everyone.

Mystic River

By CJ on January 4, 2006 5:46 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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  • Cast:
    Sean Penn .... Jimmy Markum
    Tim Robbins .... Dave Boyle
    Kevin Bacon .... Sean Devine
    Laurence Fishburne .... Sgt. Whitey Powers
    Marcia Gay Harden .... Celeste Boyle
    Laura Linney .... Annabeth Markum
  • Director:
    Clint Eastwood
  • Genre:
    Crime / Drama / Thriller
  • Tagline
    We bury our sins, we wash them clean.
  • Plot Outline
    With a childhood tragedy that overshadowed their lives, three men are reunited by circumstance when one loses a daughter.
  • Comment
    That was awesome. Recently Sean Penn is one of my favourite actors.
    This time I saw it with English subtitles sometimes, because there were a lot of whispers. For me, it's a little difficult to catch whispers correctly, so I sometimes turn English subtitles on.
    About the ending of this film, I first thought a little unsatisfied, but actually after all, I changed my mind. There were three boys, they were friends and played hockey together. But someday something happened. Then maybe about twenty years later, all of them were involved in an incident. Jimmy (Sean Penn) lost one of his daughter, she was murdered, and Sean (Kevin Bacon) appears as a detective, then some reason, Dave (Tim Robbins) went back to his place with covered with a lot of blood on the day when she was murdered. Dave wanted to disappear from this world I guess, because of his experience of his youth, also he didn't want to think about it, and Jimmy also wanted to wipe his memory but just he kept carrying them, whilst Sean got a difficulty with his wife because of his busyness. Anyway I enjoyed this film a lot.
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