Hiatus

Today I'm boarding a plane to a place where there will be NO Internet connection (that's a true vacation, lol!) so wont be able to post the Cesar nominations that will be announced next Friday. If you feel like learning them before I go back to civilization, please go here.

2010 Academy Awards Foreign Language Film Shortlist

Here is the short list with nine (9)films that continue to be considered for final nominations in the category.

* Argentina, “El Secreto de Sus Ojos,” Juan Jose Campanella, director;
* Australia, “Samson & Delilah,” Warwick Thornton, director;
* Bulgaria, “The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks around the Corner,” Stephan Komandarev, director;
* France, “Un Prophète,” Jacques Audiard, director;
* Germany, “The White Ribbon,” Michael Haneke, director;
* Israel, “Ajami,” Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani, directors;
* Kazakhstan, “Kelin,” Ermek Tursunov, director;
* The Netherlands, “Winter in Wartime,” Martin Koolhoven, director;
* Peru, “The Milk of Sorrow,” Claudia Llosa, director.

To read the official press release go here. Congratulations to Argentina and Peru; so glad that my two favorites made it to the short list, A Prophet and The White Ribbon, let's see what happens when the final five are announced but I do expect both to be nominated.

67th Golden Globes Winners

Even if by now most of you know last night winners and found that my predictions were not really that wrong, here they are in my very first post using my brand new laptop with a lighted keyboard that's just cool.

Best Picture Drama: Avatar
Best Picture Comedy or Musical: The Hangover
Best Actress Drama: Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side
Best Actress Comedy or Musical: Meryl Streep in Julie & Julia
Best Actor Drama: Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart
Best Actor Comedy or Musical: Robert Downey Jr in Sherlock Holmes
Best Supporting Actress: Mo'nique in Precious
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds
Best Director: James Cameron for Avatar
Best Animated Movie: UP

Best Foreign Language Film: Das Weisse Band-Eine Deutsche Kidergeschichte (The White Ribbon)

Seems that gossip was right as Cameron and Avatar got the big awards, which I do not know what to think yet as hasn't been able to watch the movie. But a blockbuster winning major American awards is not common, but has happened before a few times, including once to a James Cameron film, remember Titanic? Hope to be able to watch Avatar tomorrow and hope to at least enjoy the special effects as serious buzz says that the story is not really good.

The award show was entertaining and I know that not many like Ricky Gervais kind of humor, but his sharp darkish humor is what kept me awake until the end of the show. He really makes me laugh hard.

From TV categories I'm really happy that Toni Collette was honored for the great United States of Tara, as well as Drew Barrymore for her performance in Grey Gardens and from the clips now I know that I have to watch Georgia O'Keeffe with Joan Allen and Jeremy Irons. Already watch and like Big Love with Chloe Sevigny very dramatic performances during last season and a well deserved honor.

So now I have little doubt that Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock will be nominated for Best Actress, that Jeff Bridges will also be nominated, and that Christoph Waltz has an Oscar in his future.

That's it for this year.

15th Critics’ Choice Awards Winners

Winners are in *RED.

Recently the Broadcast Film Critics Association announced their nominations and here they are.

BEST PICTURE
Avatar
An Education
*The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Invictus
Nine
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up In The Air

BEST ACTRESS (Tie)
Emily Blunt - The Young Victoria
*Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side
Carey Mulligan - An Education
Saoirse Ronan - The Lovely Bones
Gabourey Sidibe - Precious
*Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia

BEST ACTOR
*Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart
George Clooney - Up In The Air
Colin Firth - A Single Man
Morgan Freeman - Invictus
Viggo Mortensen - The Road
Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker


BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Matt Damon - Invictus
Woody Harrelson - The Messenger
Christian McKay - Me And Orson Welles
Alfred Molina - An Education
Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones
*Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Marion Cotillard - Nine
Vera Farmiga - Up In The Air
Anna Kendrick - Up In The Air
*Mo’Nique - Precious
Julianne Moore - A Single Man
Samantha Morton - The Messenger

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Jae Head - The Blind Side
Bailee Madison - Brothers
Max Records - Where The Wild Things Are
*Saoirse Ronan - The Lovely Bones
Kodi Smit-McPhee - The Road

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
*Inglourious Basterds
Nine
Precious
Star Trek
Up In The Air

BEST DIRECTING
*Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
James Cameron - Avatar
Lee Daniels - Precious
Clint Eastwood - Invictus
Jason Reitman - Up In The Air
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Cloudy With A Chanceof Meatballs
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Princess and the Frog
*Up

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
*Broken Embraces
Coco Before Chanel
Red Cliff
Sin Nombre
The White Ribbon
(I think no one in America has seen A Prophet!) Unbelievable that Critics' find Broken Embrances better than The White Ribbon or even Sin Nombre!!!

To check nominees in other categories go here. The awards ceremony will be on January 15th and will be broadcast on VH1. Use the same link to find winners in all categories.

Festivals News

Some of you probably noticed that posting at the blog has been erratic and it’s not because I do not want to post or because I have no free time. It’s been because the blog is the object of a massive and very disgusting spam attack that finally I hope I learned how to control it, as for the past two days spam has stopped. Let’s hope that spam stays away from the blog from now on.

Unfortunately for the next two weeks I’ll be traveling and won’t be able to continue posting more regularly, so I decided to call your attention to two festivals that will be running soon. One is Sundance and the other is more interesting if you enjoy good International cinema, the 39th Rotterdam International Film Festival.

I will be posting the winners in each festival as soon as possible, but if you wish to check the list of films at the Rotterdam fest please go here and to check the Sundance lineup go here.

From Sundance there is one film that I’m sure many that read the blog will be excited to finally learn that has been released: The Runaways! The bad news is that there will be no Queer Lounge this year at Sundance, so it’s not easy to learn the LGBT films that will be screened.

From the Rotterdam fest here is a copy and paste of the nominees for the VPRO Tiger Awards Competition

Autumn Adagio by Inoue Tsuki (Japan, 2009)
Inoue Tsuki’s début feature film, after her prize winning short fiction The Woman Who Is Beating The Earth, is called Autumn Adagio. Japanese musician and actress Rei Shibakusa plays a middle-aged nun in a drama that deals with salvation, sexuality and identity in the different stages of a woman’s life.

C’est déja l'été by Martijn Maria Smits (The Netherlands/Belgium, 2010)
Talentend young filmmaker Martijn Smits literally makes his way into Dardenne Brothers territory with his début feature C’est déja l'été, a realistic and engaging portrayal of a dysfunctional, lower class family living in Seraing, Belgium.

Agua fría de mar (Cold water of the Sea) by Paz Fábrega (Costa Rica/France/Spain/Netherlands/Mexico, 2010)
Paz Fábrega’s first feature film Agua fría de mar (Cold Water of the Sea) is set on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica during the Christmas holiday season. It is the sensitive and atmospheric story of a young couple and a seven-year old girl with very different social backgrounds.

Let Each One Go Where He May by Ben Russell (USA/Suriname, 2009)
Let Each One Go Where He May is the feature début of Chicago-based filmmaker Ben Russell. The film, portraying contemporary Saramaccan life, traces the journey of two brothers who venture from the outskirts of Paramaribo, Suriname, on land and through rapids, past a Maroon village on the Upper Suriname River. Their journey reflects the voyage undertaken by their ancestors, who escaped from slavery at the hands of the Dutch 300 years earlier.

Mama by Yelena Renard & Nikolay Renard (Russia, 2010)
Yelena and Nikolay Renard, new and promising voices in Russian cinema, made fiction out of the real life story of a complex relationship between an overbearing mother and her obese, forty-year-old son who still lives at home. The filmmakers use a very realistic style in which shots are sometimes turned into tableaux vivants.

Miyoko by Tsubota Yoshifumi (Japan, 2009)
Tsubota Yoshifumi’s Miyoko is a lavishly styled biopic about a Japanese manga-artist, his regularly nude posing muse Miyoko and the bohemian Tokyo neighborhood where they live in the seventies. The young artist obsessively sticks to his girlfriend and the bottle.

Mundane History by Anocha Suwichakornpong (Thailand, 2009)
Scriptwriter and director Anocha Suwichakornpong’s short film Graceland (2006) became the first Thai short film to be included in the Official Selection at Cannes Film Festival. Her feature film début Mundane History is a family drama about a paralyzed son, an elusive father and the male nurse hired to take care of the wheelchair-bound patient. Suwichakornpong’s second feature project By the Time It Gets Dark is selected for CineMart 2010.

My Daughter by Charlotte Lay Kuen Lim (Malaysia, 2009)
Charlotte Lay Kuen Lim worked for numerous TV commercials after completing her studies in broadcasting and was an assistant director for various films. She directed several short films, such as Escape (2008), screened at IFFR 2009. Her feature film début My Daughter is an intimate study of the mutual dependence between a slovenly hairdresser and her insecure teenage daughter.

R by Michael Noer & Tobias Lindholm (Denmark, 2010)
R is Lindholm & Noer’s first feature film about young Rune who tries to survive in a Danish prison. A gripping, hard hitting film that portrays the prison world with its strict hierarchy, codes of honor and mysterious contracts.

Les signes vitaux (Vital Signs) by Sophie Deraspe (Canada, 2009)
A young Canadian woman wants to know what people really need in the last moments of their lives. In a restrained way, without any false sentimentality, Sophie Deraspe’s film evokes grand questions about the things that are important in life and the strange intimacy between caregivers and the dying.

Street Days by Levan Koguashvili (Georgia, 2010)
Sober Georgian drama about Checkie, a jobless and penniless junkie, is a reflection of a generation who were around the age of twenty when the Soviet Union fell, brought up in the soviet style, and incapable of adapting to all the socio-political and economical changes. They are now in their late thirties and early forties and referred to as the lost generation.

Sun Spots by Yang Heng (Hong Kong/China, 2009)
Three years after his award winning début feature Betelnut, Yang Heng presents Sun Spots, minimalistic Chinese cinema that combines beautiful HD imagery with the story of a tragic relationship between a young gangster and a girl disappointed in love.

The Temptation of St. Tony by Veiko Õunpuu (Estonia/Sweden/Finland, 2009)
After winning the Horizon Award 2007 at the Venice Film Festival for his début feature Autumn Ball, Estonian filmmaker Veiko Õunpuu now returns with his second feature The Temptation of St. Tony, a parable on the new, wolf like capitalism in Eastern Europe with its compassionless capitalist rules and rulers. Shot in beautiful black and white, Õunpuu’s vision is provocative and dark, but also very diverting with his use of black comedy.

Alamar (To the Sea) by Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio (Mexico, 2009), European premiere
Alamar delicately portrays the relationship between a father and son spending a summer on Chinchorro reef on the Mexican-Caribbean coast, where the father is a fisherman. The second feature film by Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio was produced by Jaime Romandia for Mantarraya Producciones that previously produced films by Carlos Reygadas and Amat Escalante.

La vie au Ranch by Sophie Letourneur (France, 2009)
In her début feature La vie au ranch, Sophie Letourneur portrays with great insight the seemingly quite happy daily life of a small group of twenty-year-old female students living together in what they call their ‘Ranch’. Their lives are about to be confronted with the sharper edges of reality and relationships.

There are some very interesting films in the competition lineup that I had to post them.

Hope you will browse both fests sites and one fest that definitively I HAVE to do the usual coverage is the 2010 Berlinale that will start on February 11th, 2010 and this year will celebrate its 60th Anniversary.

Enjoy!

2010 Critics' Choice Awards

Tonight at 9:00pm ET the awards show will be broadcast live in VH1 and probably I will not be able to watch it unless I find a way online. Still the awards show is not very entertaining and definitively lacks the glamour of other awards shows, so I do not mind missing it. Tomorrow I'll post the winners, but if I guess in advance I believe that will follow the trend we have been seeing in all the critics state chapters, meaning The Hurt Locker or Up in the Air will win, as well as George Clooney, Meryl Streep or Sandra Bullock (this result will be interesting to find), Christoph Waltz, Mo'nique and Kathryn Bigelow or maybe not as not often female directors get the awards, so probably will be Tarantino.

Never mind, by this time tomorrow we will know how American critics rate 2009 cinema.

67th Golden Globes Awards News

Next Sunday January 17th at 8:00pm ET the always fun-to-watch show will be telecast live on NBC and the extremely good news for me is that I’ll be in the USA and will be able to just turn on the TV and watch! Gee that’s absolutely great as I thought I was going to miss the show.

A few days back a friend asked me for my predictions and well, the Globes have been unpredictable with many surprises, but this year maybe I guess right. So after consulting my crystal ball here they are.

Best Picture Drama: Hurt Locker or Inglourious Basterds. The surprise will be Precious but I didn’t like the movie at all, so I hope there are no surprises.

Best Picture Comedy or Musical: I was hoping for Nine but critics reviews have not been favorable; so I think is going to be Meryl Streep, meaning It’s Complicated or Julie & Julia IF they do not cancel each other. The surprise will be if The Hangover or (500) Days of Summer wins.

Best Actress Drama: Wish Carey Mulligan wins but the huge commercial success of Sandra Bullock’s The Blind Side plus her good interpretation could mean a win. The surprise could be if Helen Mirren, Emily Blunt or Gabourey Sidibe win.

Best Actress Comedy or Musical: Has to be Meryl Streep for Julie & Julia. It’s almost a sure thing. The huge positive surprise for me will be if Marion Cotillard wins and haven’t seen Nine yet.

Best Actor Drama: From buzz Colin Firth should win, but I believe that will be George Clooney. Wish Morgan Freeman will get it for his excellent performance, but I doubt he will win. Also from buzz, the surprise could be Jeff Bridges.

Best Actor Comedy or Musical: Hard to guess but I wouldn’t mind if Daniel Day-Lewis or Robert Downey Jr are honored; still the buzz leans toward Matt Damon.

Best Supporting Actress: Everybody says it will be Mo’nique. Well her character was so disgusting and she did it so well that deserves the honor, at least more than Vera Farmiga or Anna Kendrick. The huge surprise will be if Penelope Cruz wins.

Best Supporting Actor: HAS TO BE Christoph Waltz and he will win, no doubts in my mind.

Best Director: If Kathryn Bigelow or Quentin Tarrantino win I’ll be okay. Gossip says that Bigelow’s ex-husband James Cameron has the votes because the humongous Avatar success. I really wish Clint Eastwood wins, but is not likely this year. The surprise could come with Jason Reitman winning and in my humble opinion he does not deserve the honor for this movie that is ordinary especially when you compare it to extraordinary Juno.

Best Foreign Language Film: HAS TO BE A Prophet or The White Ribbon otherwise I will never watch the show again (just kidding). The huge positive surprise will be if Chile’s La Nana (The Maid) wins and be sure that I’ll drink champagne to celebrate.

Some of you perhaps recall that animated movies are not my thing and the only film that have seen is UP that comes with Cannes credentials and surely will win.

Anyway, not often Globe winners are Oscar winners so the awards value for us viewers is the unpredictable things that always happen during the show and that make me watch year after year. Hope many of you sit in front of the TV next Sunday and have some fun watching the most irreverent awards show in the planet that this year -after many years without- will have a host that I like for his very darkish humor, Rick Gervais.

Enjoy!!!

2010 BAFTA Rising Star Award

If you live in UK this is your chance to vote for your favorite Rising Star. Here are the nominees.

Jesse Eisenberg
Nicholas Hoult
Carey Mulligan
Tahar Rahim
Kristen Stewart

I really LOVED Tahar Rahim in A Prophet, amazing performance and I really liked Carey Mulligan in An Education, but if I could vote my totally biased vote goes to Kristen Stewart that I LOVE before she became so famous with the Twilight saga.

To learn how to vote and/or read a brief bio of each nominee go here.

Eric Rohmer

Just read the very sad news that Eric Rohmer passed away at age 89. I will never forget many of his movies but there is one that I have seen several times and know will watch several times again: Le Genou de Claire (Claire's Knee). RIP.

If you read French, I suggest you read the article here.

Movie Bits

Strongly suggest you do not miss the following movies.

Invictus - Very Emotional, Clint Eastwood definitively it's a master filmmaker and storyteller! Morgan Freeman as Mandela is Outstanding!

It's Complicated - If you're a woman or men of certain age you have to watch this comedy with stellar Meryl Streep that definitively is greater (if possible) in a comedy. The story is entertaining, only at the end is sort of rushed into the climax in a not so great way.

The Blind Side - Nice real life story and Sandra Bullock delivers a great performance that will mesmerize you.

An Education - Excellent performance by Carey Mulligan, she totally steals the movie. Great period representation and costumes. Story is predictable, but who cares when Mulligan delivers a remarkable performance.

Didn't enjoy it much, but is entertaining

Up in the Air - Found nothing outstanding, but the story is relevant for current times.

2010 BAFTA Awards Long List

Before announcing the long list (the results of Round One of three) the Academy announced the nominations for the following category.

Film Not in the English Language
Abrazos Rotos (Broken Embrances)
Coco Avant Chanel (Coco Before Chanel)
Let the Right One In
A Prophet
The White Ribbon

To read the official announcement please go here. Have seen the five and truly love the Swedish vampire movie, but my vote is split between A Prophet and The White Ribbon.

So here is the long list for some categories. Remember that over 6000 members of the Academy vote in three rounds and this is the result of Round One that distilled 220 films down to fifteen in each category, Round Two will reduce the fifteen to the five nominations in each category. The full list of nominations will be announced Thursday January 21.

Best Film
Avatar
District 9
An Education
Gran Torino
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Invictus
Moon
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
The Road
A Serious Man
A Single Man
Star Trek
Up
Up in the Air

Best Director
Avatar *
Bright Star
District 9 *
An Education *
Fish Tank
Gran Torino
The Hurt Locker *
Inglourious Basterds
Invictus
Moon
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
A Prophet *
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air

Animated Film
Coraline
A Christmas Carol
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Up

Leading Actress
Abbie Cornish (Fanny Brawne) – Bright Star *
Amy Adams (Julie Powell) – Julie & Julia
Audrey Tautou (Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel) – Coco Before Chanel
Carey Mulligan (Jenny) – An Education *
Emily Blunt (Queen Victoria) – The Young Victoria
Gabourey Sidibe (Precious) – Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire *
Helen Mirren (Sofya Tolstoy) – The Last Station
Katie Jarvis (Mia) – Fish Tank
Maggie Gyllenhaal (Jean Craddock) – Crazy Heart
Marion Cotillard (Luisa Contini) – Nine
Melanie Laurent (Shosanna Dreyfus) – Inglourious Basterds
Meryl Streep (Jane) – It’s Complicated
Meryl Streep (Julia Child) – Julie & Julia *
Penelope Cruz (Lena) – Broken Embraces
Saoirse Ronan (Susie Salmon) – The Lovely Bones

Leading Actor
Aaron Johnson (John Lennon) – Nowhere Boy
Andy Serkis (Ian Dury) – Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll *
Ben Whishaw (John Keats) – Bright Star
Brad Pitt (Lt. Aldo Raine) – Inglourious Basterds
Clint Eastwood (Walt Kowalski) – Gran Torino
Colin Firth (George) – A Single Man *
George Clooney (Ryan Bingham) – Up in the Air *
Jeff Bridges (Bad Blake) – Crazy Heart
Jeremy Renner (SSgt. William James) – The Hurt Locker *
Michael Sheen (Brian Clough) – The Damned United
Morgan Freeman (Nelson Mandela) – Invictus *
Peter Capaldi (Malcolm Tucker) – In the Loop
Peter Sarsgaard (David) – An Education
Sam Rockwell (Sam Bell) – Moon
Viggo Mortensen (Man) – The Road

Supporting Actress
Anna Kendrick (Natalie Keener) – Up in the Air
Anne-Marie Duff (Julia) – Nowhere Boy *
Claire Danes (Sonja Jones) – Me and Orson Welles
Diane Kruger (Bridget von Hammersmark) – Inglourious Basterds
Emma Thompson (Headmistress) – An Education
Julianne Moore (Charley) – A Single Man *
Kristin Scott Thomas (Mimi) – Nowhere Boy *
Mariah Carey (Mrs Weiss) – Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Mo’Nique (Mary) – Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire *
Olivia Williams (Miss Stubbs) – An Education
Penelope Cruz (Carla) – Nine
Rachel Weisz (Abigail Salmon) – The Lovely Bones
Rosamund Pike (Helen) – An Education *
Susan Sarandon (Grandma Lynn) – The Lovely Bones
Vera Farmiga (Alex Goran) – Up in the Air

Supporting Actor
Aaron Wolff (Danny Gopnik) – A Serious Man
Alan Rickman (Professor Severus Snape) – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Alec Baldwin (Jake) – It’s Complicated
Alfred Molina (Jack) – An Education *
Anthony Mackie (Sgt. JT Sanborn) – The Hurt Locker
Brian Geraghty (Specialist Owen Eldridge) – The Hurt Locker
Christian McKay (Orson Welles) – Me and Orson Welles *
Christoph Waltz (Col. Landa) – Inglourious Basterds *
Christopher Plummer (Leo Tolstoy) – The Last Station *
Dominic Cooper (Danny) – An Education
Matt Damon (Francois Pienaar) – Invictus
Stanley Tucci (Mr Harvey) – The Lovely Bones *
Stanley Tucci (Paul Child) – Julie & Julia
Timothy Spall (Peter Taylor) – The Damned United
Zachary Quinto (Spock) – Star Trek

*Denotes one of the top five or six vote-getters from Round One

I do not know about you but for to me this long list seems very similar to what I imagine could look the Oscar long list if existed. To check all the categories please go here.

The Girl Who Played With Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden)

Second installment of the Millennium Trilogy series, following “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”.

While Blomkvist and other Millennium journalists research the sex industry according to the rules of good journalism, Salander tries to take matters into her own hands. She wants punishment for the traffickers, but before she can carry out her plan, she is accused of murder, connected to the sex trafficking exposé about to be published in Millennium.

To avoid being captured, Salander disappears and Blomkvist, convinced she is innocent, tries to find her to help clear her name. When he does make contact, it is to discover that Salander is involved in his investigation in more ways than he could imagine.

I’d like to say you can see this movie without watching the first one or reading the books; but I don’t recommend it. The movie follows on some of the facts that happened previously and explains a lot more about the main character, Lisbeth Salander.

As I thought it would, it cuts some interesting information that is on the book, but as I said before, it is not easy at all to make a very deep and intense book fit in a movie. I hope it will make you read the books, as it’s well worth the effort.

Director Daniel Alfredson is not up to the task he had on his hands and the movie suffers a little in comparison with the previous one because of it.

In spite of that, again we have great acting and a compelling story. Noomi Rapace does not disappoint and neither does her character Lisbeth, a truly kick-ass girl. The movie is over two hours long, but you don’t notice it, since it’s packed with action and has a good plot. Unfortunately the sex trafficking theme is only touched very softly, setting the background to what actually turns into a chase for Salander. So, either you are a fan of Salander or not; if not, skip the movie and forget about her. If you are, you’ll certainly enjoy the movie.

In an interesting detail that some will miss, we find former boxer Paolo Roberto playing himself.

I can hardly wait to read the third book and watch the final movie and, as many fans, I’m truly sorry to know that will be the end of it, following Larsson’s death. In my opinion Salander had the potential to become a 21st century icon of investigation, not unlike a Sherlock Holmes (if you have seen the new Holmes movie you’ll understand better, but that’s another review).

I hate the official poster for this movie as I think it makes Lisbeth look cheap, but that is just my personal opinion. That’s why you are getting a frame of the movie with this review instead of the usual poster.

I keep hearing that there will be a Hollywood version of the Trilogy, and I keep praying it won’t happen. I can’t imagine anyone else but Rapace and Nyqvist playing the main characters and I don’t see the point of remaking the movies.Besides, I can’t remember an American adaptation of a European movie that is better than the original. Not even “Three Men and a Baby”.

By the way, this time I agree with Storyteller as this movie fits the “lesbian interest” tag. Really. And if you are thinking “sex scene”…well, check it out for yourselves.

Green light!