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This flick is heartbreakingly tragic yet somehow a tender, fragile beauty shines through. The depiction of Bobby Sands during the hunger strikes is unflinching yet it doesn't aim to either glorify or defame the victims of the violence it triggered too.
The cinematography is breathtakingly beautiful. How something beautiful can be crafted from something so tragic and bleak is an amazing achievement.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
I will admit, being a fan of Milan Kundera, I was biased. But I found this film really touching, and from a historical perspective, I also found it quite interesting. The story doesn't make anyone without fault, and yet there is a forgiveness, a humanity, a grace in how the story treats them as it evolves.
I won't spoil the end for you, but safe to say, it is not what you would have expected at the beginning.
This is a quiet rainy day type of film, it isn't an action film or a comedy by any means, but it has some very uplifting moments.
The Help (from 2011)
Watch it with your kids, especially if you have a daughter.
Amelie (2001)
I loved the free-spiritedness and -- despite some sad moments -- the humor of the movie, the beautiful score, the irrepressible spirit of the heroine.
Wind (1992)
I love sailing, and visually, the sailing scenes are great in this movie.
Thank u so much I will be keeping track of this thread.
Off the top I can offer a very missed movie with Phillip S Hoffman
(Who's grandmother was my freaking Third Grade teacher I just found out, Mrs Louks!!)
And Robert DeNiro..."Flawless".
Thanx again.
Oh...The Killing of Sister George...if u can find it!
Couldn't rep u again, geeze.
I enjoyed "Flawless" and thanks for the recommendation, but I wish I had known that "Sister George" was such a depraved movie. It really bummed me out.
I don't know if these movies were popular when released since some of them were before my time. I have a suspicion that "The Elephant Man" was popular. This is the saddest movie I've ever seen.
In 1992 the Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
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