A Very Long Engagement (2004, Jean-Pierre Jeunet) So many movies this year have ripped my heart out and then put it back together again in new and creative ways, that to say that this is the third-best movie in that vein this year doesn’t do it justice. A Very Long Engagement is a beautifully heartwrenching […]
WIN – dirty pretty things–2002, Stephen Frears Audrey Tautou of Amelie fame doesn’t speak much English, so she had to learn most of her lines for this movie phonetically. That doesn’t stop her from turning in a heartbreaking performance as Senay, a Turkish woman seeking asylum in London. This movie, about the struggles of two […]
