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The Château (2001)
very funny
I really enjoyed this unconventional film. I found the hand-held camera work and video quality of film suited the narrative and tone and the actors did very convincing jobs of the characters they portrayed. The french/American culture clash was done to great comic effect. Paul Rudd was brilliant as well as Romany Malco and Sylvie Testud, whose work I was not familiar with. I've been wanting to see this movie since it came out and I was not disappointed. If you are up for something a little more off the cuff than what usually come out of America, you will be glad to find this movie. It seems like a really good student film with great acting that actually got the resources necessary to see the film through as it was conceived of.
Out of Rosenheim (1987)
an incongruous visitor shows up at a truck stop motel and everything changes
This is a wonderful movie if you stick with it a bit. The soundtrack gets stuck in my head for days every time I watch it. (bc it is haunting and beautiful) It is about people edging closer to each other in the strange and jerky way that life really works in. It has a sinuous, hushed, lovely tone to it, a lot of humor and poignancy. The assortment of characters and quirkiness of the location and juxtapositions are really wonderful. Jack Palance is a wonder to behold and I had never known the other actors, but they were all perfect in their parts. One of those movies that seems like it appeared fully formed somehow, but from where? I guess more like life than a movie in this way. One wonders about the process of its being made--how all those characters were assembled in someone's imagination and how they took form. Traces true organic development. A detail-lover's movie.