Reviews

I couldn't stop laughing, and when I was stopping suddenly another bigger laugh. Well done, probably Madhavan's best performance ever. Definetely a very dark humour critique about the conservative (sometimes ridiculous traits) way of life from high-classed indian society, and both gender's ego.

Main roles are too much. A good man so perfect that becomes too much patient, a submissive, insecure, silly stupid woman who doesn't know how to stand for herself. Very much like many Asian ladies I know. I could stand all that because it gives a reasonable story in the middle of the rigid traditional korean society, with values which aren't valid anymore. But the thing I cannot stand is the soundtrack, not appropriate, iterative in the worst moment and lyrics which don't match the situation. Sometimes I want to turn off the tv.

Stop the nationalist chauvinism, this is the real underground Colombia. Although the plot has some loose ends and some characters deserved more development, this Guy Ritchie like production shows the decadence of a drug lord, the racism, the male chauvinism besides the classical beauty pageant lady who married a drug dealer, because average low-middle class Colombian woman is raised like that. Oh unfortunately, if she is pretty OUR society tells to find the narc to pays her tastes. And the nasty if not idiotic side of authorities. But certainly a mirror of our reality.

I can't believe the similarities with the mexican series, "El Chavo del 8", like this "8, Rue de l'Humanité". Some things are funny, some others disgusting. The caring concierge, the nasty owner, the paranoic, and the little boy in love. Yes, I felt like watching that tv show from my childhood!

This tv show is long awaited due the difficult and lack of interest for opera. Im watching it in Colombia's public network. Here many people prefer commercial musical theater instead of opera. We have no idea!!! But this show helps to understand it by making comparisons with daily life and popular stuff. The host shows passion and fascination which are contagious for the viewer. Shame it only lasts one hour because it's very entertaining.

Actually the series are devolping in more realistic way than those interpretations of the classical Hollywood-nuclear drama we're used to. Things are getting revealed in a slowly pace without leaving the characters' personal lives. It deserves a second season round. Good performances, suspense in its proper dose.

It's been long since I cried watching a movie. 'Silence in Paradise' is based in real events happening during government of former president Alvaro Uribe, who by the way should be prosecuted by the International Court. The situations portrayed are real and a true image of the poor young men in Colombia. A movie you should watch with guts and a handkerchief. Every colombian who still thinks peace was a gift to guerrillas and it shouldn't exist, might think twice after watching the film why deceit, corruption and poverty are the worst violence of all.

This is just a movie for Indians who wish to see things that are practically condemned these days around the world. Yes, the classic features and music and dance performances in a "spaghetti western" as other user wrote, but bullets come and go... and overreacting into violence on behalf of the gods... and all the world thinking the fundamentalism violence is exclusive from Muslims.

I saw the promotion done by interviews to the cast and particularly to Saif Khan, when I was living in India. He said he will use real weapons... honestly, you have to be very stupid, and risking the fact that manipulating real guns for films is more expensive and dangerous. But it's for the marketing, and if you believe it, and like it, well, that's the kind of human being you are. Story is entertaining, while the character Raja deals with his new enemies in life and protects damsels in perish.

If you love Indian culture and you still swallow that new age religious manipulated stuff of the spirituality in India, don't watch this movie, because is the reflection of the ideal "macho" Indian version. Which the whole opposite of those fantasies sold by the tourism industry.

"La vendedora de rosas" (the rose seller) is a story inspired by Hans-Christian Andersen's "The little match girl". I cried because of the end but is the harsh reality of a country where children in slums suffer the most. So, if based in Andersen's, the end is predictable, but very good adapted to Colombian reality and not exclusive from this country. Any child in any slum might have the same fate, but also faces that fate with imagination, and that's where the fairy tale gets in.

This movie used natural actors, same as the "Slumdog millionaire", and I think Victor Gaviria used the fairy tale adaptation to make it more universal and more poetic. Once you leave the screen, you feel lucky you can pay a movie ticket, but also you believe you can do something better for your own children, and those children outside the theater begging for a meal.

This is a story Colombians feel as their socio-cultural heritage, so many individual stories inside a bigger one. Excellent performances from Victor Mallarino, Florina Lemaitre and the late Frank Ramirez. It left a key message inside "no matter how dark the future is, we'll endure by creativeness".

This film was premiered first in Germany regarding the trans gender topic but it wasn't the central theme, but the fact is about indifferent landlords and their economic interests above the less favored people who must survive day by day.

It's also about a downtown Bogotá that doesn't exists anymore, because it portrays the old palace of justice, destroyed by a guerrilla now gone in times where bureaucracy was at hand, but serves well to the purpose of the residents of an old house. It also gives a description of the religious idiosyncrasy from Colombia that helps the movie to develop. I strongly recommend it, because is a story which situations could be common to development countries.

I came up to watch this film after its Oscar award as best foreign language film. Although it starts like a crime movie, slowly it becomes into a love story, when we see its development through the eyes of Benjamin Esposito, the former legal counselor, who tries to solve a long ago murder.

What I liked about this story is its reliability portrayed from the 70's - when being a critic of the government was considered a reason to be prosecuted by the state- combined with two loved women stories that have lasted for 25 years. One lesson this movie gives us is "love can last longer than you think" and another is "even a forbidden love can even last longer". And it's precisely those lessons the key for Esposito to solve a crime long ago closed.

I saw this movie through HBO. I found it funny, very good performed and certainly a review of what's real life for 99% of people. Writers did a good job trying to portray both contrasts between being rich and being not necessarily poor, but living life as it is.

The challenges the three children face to learn humbleness and the joy of gathering family back again are the most important topics here. I recommend this movie to make fun of rich people and their silliness by posing as "Americans wannabe" with their words in English and shallow life.

It's a movie full of creativeness, Mexican identity and for non-Latin Americans, I believe this movie will show how is "life in the tropics".