WISDOM OF HAPPINESS ***
The Dalai Lama, whose title means ’Ocean of Knowledge’ and who’s the Holy chief of Tibetan Buddhism, is internationally generally known as a person representing love and peace.
This inspiring movie has him speaking on to us, giving of his knowledge and experiences, as he explains that compassion and happiness must be our objectives. And the way they are often the idea and synergy for a kinder, higher world.
He was a mere 5 years outdated in 1940 when he was chosen because the 14th Dalai Lama, and the movie expands to painting his early years, his household, and his compelled departure from Tibet for exile in northern India when the Chinese language invaded his nation to cleanse it of its tradition and Buddhist faith.
What makes this movie by Barbara Miller distinctive (with the collaboration of Philip Delaquis and Richard Gere) is how this, at occasions humorous, heart-to-heart second with the Dalai Lama can transport us to a better degree of comprehension and enlightenment. I used to be utterly elevated by his easy message of goodness and its emanating serenity.
Like Coline Serreau’s 1996 “La Belle Verte”, it is a movie to see at the very least as soon as a month to reset our priorities about life.
I ponder if it could additionally work the identical manner on the bullying Mr. Trump and the opposite autocrats round our troubled world. The movie must be despatched to all their places of work. If solely…
The movie’s title jogs my memory of a saying I heard years in the past – “Be joyful, it’s a manner of being smart”. So true.
L’ATTACHEMENT (The Ties That Bind Us) ***1/2 ( vo French)
This tender movie about circumstances that might occur to anybody, is the work of Carine Tardieu, whose final movie was the extremely touching “Les Jeunes Amants”, starring the older Fanny Ardant and her younger lover, Melvil Poupaud. Tardieu appears a specialist in critical romantic relationships.
These are not any romcoms…
Sandra, a busy, unbiased girl in her fifties (the superb Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) lives alone in an condo constructing. Early one morning the younger neighbours reverse ask her to observe their two little youngsters, as they’re in a rush to get to the hospital for the beginning of their third little one. Whereas she is considerably dismayed, they’re ecstatically joyful as they rush off.
Tragedy strikes. Alex the daddy (Pio Marmai) comes house alone with the infant because the mom has died in childbirth.
At first Sandra tries to assist on this terrible catastrophe, although she is reluctant as she is just not used to youngsters, she has an enormous work load and one other life. However being so shut in proximity, she is drawn into this misplaced little household, and slowly turns into particularly hooked up to the little boy (a wonderful César Botti). So goes life…
I’ll say no extra about this touching, very French movie, which you must uncover by yourself.
MERCATO **1/2 (vo French)
I didn’t know, needed to look it up – in soccer phrases, Mercato means ‘switch market’. The switch of gamers from one crew to a different and naturally their brokers who make their commissions on them. Bear in mind Tom Cruise’s “Jerry Maguire”?
Properly, the very simpatico French/Moroccan comic Jamel Debbouze performs right here the harried agent wheeling and dealing his manner by way of the ruthlessly aggressive, monied world of French soccer. He’s slightly fellow with massive concepts and many chutzpah, and he alone makes this movie thrilling to a wider viewers, past the realm of soccer or the testosterone crowd. It begins off sluggish, with a jargon that’s obscure, but it surely builds up. Debbouze holds our curiosity and makes this a human movie about survival in a dog-eat-dog world. Directed by Tristan Séguéla, it’s being produced by Netflix – good for the very worthy Debbouze.
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By Neptune
Neptune Ravar Ingwersen critiques movie extensively for publications in Switzerland. She views 4 to eight movies per week and her intention is to kind the wheat from the chaff for readers.
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