Blue Jasmine

BLUE JASMINE starring stunning Cate Blanchett, named by her step mother after her favourite flower.

They say that when Woody Allen calls or writes a letter to choose you for one of his movies, you instatly have to agree! And in this movie, Woody Allen has discovered a real gem, Cate Blanchett!

Movie starts with Cate Blanchett as Jasmine French on a plane mumbling and venting to and old women about her life, endlessly speaking without even noticing granny wants to step away.
"I'll call you for lunch", she says. "Oh wait I don´t even have your number". Granny´s all: who´s this psycho bimbo speaking to, just leave me. This reminds me I´m somewhat of a verbal harraser, I talk too much and frequently go on and on until I don´t even know if the person is still listening hahahah. ´

Jasmine French( such a chick and posy name by the way) leaves the plane after flying first class as a recent broke Newyork socialite who's having a nervous breakdown cause her husband Hal ( Alec Baldwin) is jailed for stealing uncountable money from honorable people.That´s the vanilla of the Sundae.

Being abandoned by everyone, included her son, she heads to the mini flat where her middle class sister lives in a desperate call for recovery. Inside her Louis Vuitton Suitcase from New York she comes with:

-a despicable husband who not only ,has made a fortune by stealing others people´s money, but is also a Pig women cheater who has fucked practically everyone right on Jasmine's face.

- A bag of Pills to deal with her anxiety and allucinations

All her luxury has been taken from her and she no longer recognises who she is, cause she´s capricious and needs money warmth. No money, so she substitutes it with pills and Vodka or her SPLENDOROUS martini´s. 

No surprise then was when she deliberatly starts talking to herself on the street. Because of this, her lovely sister Ginger ( Sally Hawkins) finds in her heart the ability to forgive her step sister and decides to take care of her. Giving her the opportunity to do something with her life, get back on track. Here, we are not talking to a normal person, we are talking to a spoiled glitzy person who is completely unstable and insane. So this makes Cate Blanchett´s acting superb!!!

  Surprise to us spectators was when she decides she wants to become an interior decorator(on the suggestion of her beloved Ginger, with all the patience of the world)  oh but wait, she doen´t have money , so yeah , she´ll do it online, but she doesn´t know how to use a computer HAHAHA. She ends up accepting a job as a dentists secretary in order to pay for her computer lessons. After an indecent preposition like Michael Douglass one in "disclosure" ,from the freak disgusting dentist, she becomes even more screwed. Picks on her sister entirely the whole day, reffering to her bad tastes in men and her ability to pick loosers. Like what does she know when her super millionaire

 husband turned out to be an ass! Off this character goes and makes the same mistakes all over again. She attends a party invited by her friend from the computer lessons. She´s out for the same target: A rich man who can rescue her from the ground, rescue her from the dirt she believes she doesn´t deserve to be in.  She´s spoiled and for that her inner nerves are colliding and corrupting

her.  More pills, more pills , more alcohol and more monologues with herself as a phsycotic schyzophrenic.

 I just love her acting!!!!! It's not about her husband´s corruption nor about his cheating on her, it's all about money and has always been about money.

She wants her diamonds , her loss of money has drove her to hell ,to her own hell. Down the hill she goes, rolling down all over the movie with her nervous collisions and crazy acting makes as laugh from minute one. First rate acting on a role I hadn´t seen Cate Blanchett before. A new high in a remarkable career as an actress.

Hitherto I want to alude to her clothing aswell. They say money doesn´t bring elegance and that the person isn´t elegant because of what she wears ,but by itself. BULLSHIT! If you can afford expensive textures and textiles be damn sure you´ll be the queen of the party. It´s true though that you need style ,cause honey if you wear brands, but ain´t have a clue how to wear them you would be picked upon as an ARGHH with bad taste! 

Astory about how a woman can be flashlighted by all the goods and agreed to be spoiled. 

A standing ovation, an incredible act. In a recent interview for Empire magazine UK she said:

"Working for woody is like a gladiatorial spot. You either sink or you swim, but when you are out there,trying to battle the lions,I did get a sense of what the film was.......alive. That much energy and that much care is fantastic." 

Fried Green Tomatoes

A heart can be broken, but it keeps beating just the same......

Okay, I know A classic...but well you know me, I dig´em out of the soil, the old movies that everyone has forgotten to watch....
Fried Green Tomatoes ,my grandmas and her sister´s favorite, they used to watch it uncountless times when something was worrying them sick.

A movie with lots of values directed by Jon Avnet and made from the book by Fannie Flagg.
A the story of a housewife Evelyn, (played by Kathy Bates) unhappy with her life,who happens to meet an old lady called Ninny (Jessica Tandy) in the hospital that starts  telling her old stories.
And it´s all thanks to this stories that she begins to have a reason to smile.

Here comes the story of Idgie Threadgoode (Mary Stuart Masterson) and Ruth Jamison (Mary Louise Parker) and how "Fried Green Tomatoes" emerged.
The loss of a beloved old brother leads the way of this story. Idgie ,young as ever, grows apart from his family when loosing Buddy and only makes friendship with Ruth( his brother´s girlfriend). With the help of Ruth they get Idgie back on track.

When they both heal , after Buddy´s death, they become "the best of all friends". It´s unclear whether this two had a relationship. There was a bit of  a contradiction with this movie because it was 1991 ,and Hollywood, so they had to be careful how they treated sexuality  at those times.
Eitherways, despite all the clamour, they were good friends and stood up for each other.

  Its practically after Ruth leaves and gets married that they have to go rescue her from the hands of  a husband who mistreats her. They take Ruth with them and build the "Fried Green Tomatoes" station bar. In this bar lots of blacks help and work for them both, at a time where the ku kux klan was emerging and there was begining to be a hatred against black people.
In this part I highlight the act of lovable Big George( Stan Shaw) who takes care, as a big daddy, of everyone in the Bar.
The movie takes part practically entirely in this Bar and all the situations which continue to arise daily:
 the plight against the black, the persistant harrasing of Ruth´s ex-husband..... but all in all, lives the good ambiance and strong friendship of all its workers. They have become a little BIG family and no one can invade their fort.

Parallel to this story comes the one of Evelyn Couch( taking part simultaneously) how she becomes intrigued and delighted with Idgie´s story and as the expression says : "takes it home" .
A hidden personality arises inside her which she had forgot she had, accustomed to listen and avoid making decisions, she stands up for her own ideas and rebels against her daily grind.

It´s incredible to see how a person can change your life, how when Evelyn had given up on life, an encounter with an unexpected person makes THE CHANGE.
 A Marvelous story where two people  meet at a concrete period of time and need the help of each other, Evelyn to make a change in her life and bring out her personality and the old lady from the hospitals need to remember her stories and avoid them to die inside her.

We should all do what we want , regardless of what others might think of you or try to impose behaviors in your life. You must always be honest with yourself and do as you wish.

There are a thousand times I wan´t to smash a Car, go psycho and just scream:

TOOOOOOOOOOOOOWANDA! its a warriors shout calling for an order in your life, advising you to Take a grip and confront a situation!

Saving MR Banks :)

A way back to our childhood.
I´ve never seen a movie as touching as this one. I just came out of the cinema and had this gigantic need to write it rapidly, for fear I might forget something. It is full of meticulous mini details that embelish my heart(hahah sorry for this repellent expression, I just had to). I am completely over the moon. Marvelous Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson , as lovely as ever, totally complementing one another. Director John Lee Hancock couldn´t have chosen a better couple, they fit like a duck to water, I will come back to analize tactifully and specifically Emma Thompson's interpretation.  I am afraid to make a movie critic that demands the most delicate sensibility there is in the world, cause its a true story based on events. A story that took place in those incredible Disney Studios by the hand of the grand child entertainer Waltz Disney.

Its the story of  Ms Travers the writer of Mary Poppins, a woman who recreates her life without knowing it, in a book indirectly based on her life.
Who hasn´t watched as a kid Mary Poppins and laughted at those pinguins dancing ,or dreamed about seeing this peculiar nanny approaching your window with an umbrella.
Its a story she lived,a story so precious and private that I can understand it was the writers wish to leave it as it is. Her treasure trove, avoiding big productions to steal it from her. Everyone at some point in their lives has watched Dick Van Dyke dancing Chim Chim Cheer-ee. It´s the child we have inside our adult exterior, the child Ms Travers had decided to forget.

Saving Mr Banks sets the battle from Waltz since 20 years ago for the exclusive rights to Ms travers novel to make it a movie, because he had promised it to his daughter(and he´s a man who keeps his promises). So when Ms Travers finally comes to the Studio, mainly on a need not to her liking, Mr Disney puts all his effort in satisfying the particular needs of this writer.
The grumpy attitude of our character Ms Travers gets on the nerves of everyone of the Studio, making them remain quiet or else all the movie script will be over. It´s incredibly funny to see these concrete acts. We can see Waltz getting really Clingy on her trying to make her rebel an evasive attitude disappear.

 The story of Mary Poppins was written by Ms Travers at an adult age to alude a figure she once met in her childhood and was important to her past, and guided her to become the woman she has turned into. A figure who sew all her family together when everything was going wrong. All along she´d looked back to her memories with sadness and its the Sparkle of Watz Disney and its crew with its ridiculous lyrics, songs and colours which brings the beloved joyfull attitude back to Ms Travers. No one could give  a better ending for her father but Waltz himself. A caricature kind of man who looks on the bright side of life, and as the hard childhood he had, has grown up to put a smile on thousand of generations of kids all over the world.

I admire this Producer/Director/Scriptwriter/ animator who once stood up to a production company with his Mickey Mouse project.
And thank you,Ms Travers, for giving the rights to this movie and left it in the hands of Waltz, an incredible story and a necessity to be told your way. One of the first times Disney included real characters in her movie, and not cartoons.

Amazing set up, truly heartbreaking and real. Tears assured accompanied by laughter all along the movie (not the one you laugh alone in hidden disguise, the one where all the cinema joins you).
This movie will receive a spate of likes, I´m sure,and probably my guess for the Oscar is gonna be for Emma.

Finding Forrester

Sean Connery in Finding Forrester , ASTOUNDING...
a previous version of Le intouchable movie. To my opinion, same plot and same characters, wondering around their lives and finding friendship among each other. I know movies from the past tend  not to be ones plate for a lazy afternoon, but eventhough its less touching than the other,  it´s tenderly sweeter.

Every production media and parlour have gathered around Le intouchable movie because, at the end of the day, is a novel movie , born and with brand new characters, but let´s not forget about this same guideline plot that was launched in the year 2000.

Typical black boy from the Bronx, Jamal, who is very smart but ain´t got the  guts to show it  in public cause hes mates will think he´s a looser. Pristine exam records, but showing-off character , eitherways school ends up noticing him and proposing the entrance to a private school, more to his condition.

 As a kiddo of 16 years old he shows no interest but for basketball , being one of the best around the bronx rink. It all changes one day when as a bet with his friends sneaks into an old mans house, who happens to spy on them out of mere boredom through the window. Like couriosity killed the cat , he drops his backback  while sneaking into his flat and ends up knocking at his door to begin a conversation.

 Turns out that this old man called William Forrester( played by Sean Connery ) is no one else but a famous writer left in the shadows because of past hurtful events. This character intrigues us with a background, which he shows no intention of sharing until you get to the middle plot.

 An old man who doesn´t suffer fools easily.
When dropping his backpack William  peeps into Jamal´s assignments and ends up reading the boys journal. Furthermore, he discovers an immense potential hidden inside the boy´s unwilling desire to write. Jamal is clearly an on-the- ball type of kid.
William ends up assisting and showing this young writer the path into his world, the path into the world of words.

Every day, sharp after school ,Jamal joins William in a private personal scriptwriting class. What at first glance seems only productive for the kid himself, ends up enormously fulfilling to William.
Encouraging the kid to:

" Punch the keys for god´s sake "( to an old, perhaps, Olivety typewriter).
"Don´t think, just write"
"Writers Write so readers can read".
Such inspiring words, if we think too much, most of the things we want to say never exit our minds. If you´re meant to be a writer you must just set hands on your keyboard and start writing whatever nonesense pops out of your mind. There are uncountable readers, but only a close knit group who will like what you write. So write for those people, regardless of the others.

Back to the movie....
Jamal starts handing out impecable essays and one of his literature proffesor´s doesn´t buy it. So here comes the typical character you wanna punch the screen for. Meticulously doubting about the kid and making his life hell. Fascinated with his work , but unable to give him the credit because he himself was denied the publishing of one of his scripts.

A story about the unexpected friendship of two opposites. A tenderly script aimed and carefully written for its expectators. How within this relationship they both find the beauty of life. Can´t do nothing else but applaud to the very last scene that made me cry instantly.

Now type your own melodies....

What Maisie Knew

  

 MOVIE NIGHT for a  night-in with your boyfriend! So far one of the most emotional and heartbreaking movies I have watched. From the director Scott Mc Gee & David Siegel´s.
Starring little Onata Aprile as Maisie, my favorite Alexander Skarsgard as Lincoln (seen in True Blood),Julianne Moore as Susanna (popular in cinema at the moment), Joanna Vanderham as Margo and Steve Coogan as Beale.

 Drama movie with harsh topic: parent divorce and  the battle for the custody. It is a movie which will rip everyones heart,for people of all walks of life and for all types of personalities. So get your cosy blanket, a nice person to have around you and press play....

This is Maisie:

I can´t believe a  girl so young can  play such a strong act like this. It's completely over the top and her gestures are overwhelming.
It envolves the childhood of a little girl upon the neverending arguments, insults and fake destroying relationship of her parents. How a girl comes back from school, with her tiny owl back-pack and has to deal with no attention, shouting, at a so unfair age that it should be a crime. An age were a kid has no possibility of understanding and can only blame herself.
Central argument sets the day when both parents can´t cope with each other anymore and begin the fight for the baby... None of them wants Maisie for what is worth, it´s just a fight between them in which the winner  has it all. Like if the child hadn't had enough by now, to add the constant moving around two houses every 10 days. Parents immersed in their jobs and unprepared to accept responsibilities.

Susanne and ex husband both move on and marry different persons, persons who end up babysitting a baby thats not theirs.

Alexander as Lincoln plays the rebound sex Julian Moore marries so she can appear more responsible to the court and get more access to her daughters custody(PATHETIC). Lincoln falls for Susanna,the famous rockstar  like a Kiddo. What he didn´t expect when marrying her, was the PLUS ONE little girl which he totally falls in love with... Never had he seen himself as a father so its impressive to watch his evolution closely. How he turns from a clumsy dude who forgets to hold the hand of the girl when crossing the streets, to an unimaginable teddybear.

Similarly, happens to the ex husband of Julianne who begins a new life with another girl , of course younger than him ,who turns out to be Maisie´s best nanny. So imagine the wrecking  feelings this little child has to confront!
Maisie, like a soccer ball,  moves from one house to another, with absent parents who really pay  no attention to her. It´s expected that love feeeling originate in this girl towards her stepdads. Maisie starts to call Margo her mum and Lincoln her dad.  Little by little they both begin to care about this girl to unimaginable levels. They start having fun with her, taking her playing and attending her more as their real parents than as step ones. Maisie in a complete mess doesn´t distinguish who her parents are anymore, but for the first time she´s feeling special.

 Heart of the story comes when Julianne and her ex husband both discover how they have ruined their childs life and decide to let her go. Because of their egocentrism and selfishness they have lost their little bumblebee and there´s no turning back now. She no longer recognises them.I don´t  doubt that her parents both loved her, but had taken bad decissions and these has cost them to loose their childs affection. This movie advices parents to hold their children and enjoy with them, because there will come a day when they leave and it will only depend on them if their childs one day returns.

SPECTACULAR! I have nothing more to say... LITTLE SPOILER.....:)