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I don’t know about you, but I find foreign films to be challenging at home.
In the theatre with no interruptions and undivided attention foreign films flower. At home, much harder to really focus. So when a film from Argentina strikes me as one of the best films I’ve seen in five years, I realize it must be truly superb to work in a well lit, distraction prone environment.

Search “Son Of The Bride” is that film. Made in Argentina in 2002 and nominated for Best Foreign Film at that years Oscars, written and directed by Juan Jose Camopanella. This movie is so rich and full of life and life’s problems, I was hooked immediately and it just got better and better. On the surface it’s about a 42 year old over achiever, the family business he runs, his divorced wife, daughter, retired father and his mother, now suffering from Alzheimer’s in a rest home.
What the film explores is so touching, and will get you thinking about your life, and make you laugh so much, it’s just one of those rare experiences you want someone to see and share. A film like this comes around once in a great while. I don’t want to over sell it, I tend to gush when I really like something, but I strongly recommend you do yourself a favor, clear some time, and see this film. I got it off the shelf at the public library.

Another recent foreign find was this years “Hero” from China. A mystical Chinese tale told in that sweeping slow motion manner, with a fantastic use of color to relate it’s story. But it’s “Roshomon” again, with one story told from different view points, and not one character I can recall. I just never checked into this, and am beginning to find the Chinese excess of style over content grating.

And finally I recently saw “Two Women”, the 1961 Best Actress Oscar winner with Sophia Loren, is out on DVD. The story of a mother and daughter trying to get from one end of Italy to the other at the end of the war. This is harrowing story that rips the layers away from the human spirit as these two brave souls just try to survive the inhumane state of a world at war.
It was the first the time The Academy gave a Best Actress Oscar for a foreign language performance.
If you take the time to see it, you’ll know why.

Happy viewing to all !

ST Stares vacantly at glowing screen in the night!