Advantages: Great Bergmanesque directing, great Bergmanesque acting, very personal and warm Disadvantages: It might just break your heart
Ingmar Bergman's Smultronstallet (WILDSTRAWBERRIES) was released in 1957 and one of his most accessible and humanistic films, written whilst he was ill in hospital, it is, in result, one of the warmest and most deeply felt films ever made.
A renowned medical professor (legend-director Victor Sjostrom) is living his last remaining days on the road, on his way to accept an honorary degree for his contribution to medicine. Travelling with him is his daughter-in-law who hates him because he reminds her of her husband who she hates. On the way they stop at the professor's old family house where he recalls his childhood, re-enacting his memories through being there again (unseen by anyone). When he sees his old love picking wildstrawberries and flirting with his brother he is awakened from his past by a beautiful girl, identical to his ...
Advantages: Good puzzle, suspense Disadvantages: None
The Bone Collector
THe Bone Collector is a 1999 drama-mystery-thriller film starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. It doesn't actually seem like it was made 10 years ago now as I think it is still quite an up to date and current movie.
Ange plays a similar sort of role for her, pretty girl but tough with a bit of an edge. She gets to show her sexy and adventurous side but also a vunerable side too. She is a police officer, like her deceased father who is not really mentioned but you can see that he is definitely her idol. She is just a routine beat cop called Amelia Donaghy but a chance finding of a crime scene on a routine day changes the direction of her career and life forever. This is when she meets and teams up with Lincoln Rhyme.
Rhyme is played by Denzel Washington. At first I thought the pairing of these two was quite ...
Advantages: Complex and detailed story Disadvantages: Lack of depth on characters and scenes
Moments after Jimmy Gould is released from Mill Prison having served an eight-year prison sentence, he is shot dead by a sniper. This brings DCI Brock and his partner DS David Poole into investigate. They quickly discover this was not a popular man, as he was well known as a grass as he previously informed on the gang he was working with, plus several other occasions while in prison.
All Brock and Poole?s immediate enquiries bring no reason or witnesses to this crime. However the following day another man is also found shot this time on a golf course. The link between the two men is immediately found, they were the only men released from Mill Prison the day before. And it was this second dead man Bernard Pointer who alerted the prison guards that Gould had been shot when he was leaving just after him.
DCI Brock and his Team then look to ...
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