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Refreshing movies worth watching

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This is definitely a refreshing movie - Lost in Translation (2003)
 
A perhaps slightly more serious but absolutely wonderful Japanese film, called "Departures".
The film is about Daigo Kobayashi, who loses his job as a Concert cellist when his orchestra is disbanded.
He and his wife leave Tokyo and return to his childhood town and house, where he looks for work and stumbles across work as a nōkanshi—a traditional Japanese ritual mortician.
I know that may NOT sound like a great 'back-story' to promote a film but it is a really beautiful, warm and quite touching film.
It also has a great soundtrack, by 'Joe Hisaishi' who has done many fine soundtracks and I believe All of those for Hayao Miyazaki's newly established Studio Ghibli;
If you can cope with Good subtitles, it is Definitely worth watching :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Departures_(2008_film)

 
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amirm said:
I hope I am not the only one noticing that hollywood product has sank down to just superhero movies and special effects. Or the junk, covid-era, low budget nonsense that would not even pass high-school drama class as far as acting and story line. I miss unusual, unique movies that made you sit up and admire the creativity, acting, cinematography, etc. We stop more movies at the start than we watch now despite having thousands available on demand! No, I am not talking about some artsy movie with subtitles either. Just fresh, pleasant entertainment.

So I thought I create a thread and post the few gems that are the exception in the above. Such was the movie, The Banshees of Inisherin. Here is a trailer that gives away some of the story so I suggest not watching it and just go and find the movie instead:


It is a story set in 1930s island off the coast of Ireland. It starts kind of strange and slow but picks up steam with cleaver and at times dark/funny dialog. Cinematography is near excellent with beautiful shots that suit the story. And the soundtrack is wonderful as well (available on Tidal). I suggest turning on the subtitles as the English accent (to me anyway) is quite authentic irish with local words that are unique there, making it hard to understand at times.

Rotten tomatoes score is 97% so critics agree with quality of the movie.

Set aside a couple of hours to enjoy this unusual movie and superb acting by Collin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. And supporting cast as well.
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Ondine - Trailer

One of my favorite movies. Has Collin Farrell.

 
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and... Spring

One of the most beautiful and edifying films I've seen.

 
ZolaIII said:
Nice to watch and pleasant to listen to.
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Killing Me Softly with His Songs (2022) ⭐ 7.6 | Documentary, Music

1h 43m
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Fox did NOT write Killing Me Softly - he stole it from Lori Lieiberman and took the credit. She's still recording, and now has the right to perform it too I think.
I see it is still credited to him, although she has witnesses who saw her write the lyrics....specifically the guy who was 'killing her softly' in a performance.
The story about how Roberta Flack heard it to sing is cute - I think on a flight they both were on?
 
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