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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
For all those people who suddenly finds the meaning of life only to immediately lose it...
This is a science-fiction comedy based on the book of the same name by Douglas Adams. "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is an absurd, funny, extraordinary and fantastic comedy telling a story about the meaning of life. One morning, a British man named Arthur Dent awakes and find his house is going to be demolished. But for Arthur, the demolition of his house is only the beginning, Arthur's friend eccentric Ford Prefect reveals that he is an alien and saves Arthur when Earth is wiped out to make way for an intergalactic motorway. And an adventure involving a paranoid android, an spaceship called "Heart of Gold", and a two-headed former president of the galaxy begins... This is a must see for all those people who suddenly finds the meaning of life only to immediately lose it...
O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias (2006)
Leaning on the Football
'The Year My Parents Went on Vacation' tells a turbulent period from the point of view of an innocent child. Although this is a theme very much explored by many films before, the aesthetic and narrative structure of the movie are praiseworthy. The film succeeds in giving us the littlest details about the relationships, tensions between little children and adults, adults and the old, women and men, Jews and Christians without offending the eye of the audience. What is more, it presents a spectacular visual quality and cinematography. Even though the main tension of the film is Mauro's reunion with his parents, this tension becomes partially less important in the middle of the film. The sub-tales and characters, the football conversations in particular, manage to enrich the film without rambling it. 'The Year My Parents Went on Vacation', which has comedy and drama in patches, but is never trapped in clichés and melodrama; has traces of autobiography. Just like in the film, the director Cao Hamburger's parents, academics in São Paulo College, were arrested by the soldiers in 1970. In this period, little Cao and his four siblings had to stay with their grandmothers, one of them was Jewish, and the other a Catholic Italian. The most important reason why the film is so real and earnest is maybe the proximity of it to the story of the director...
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
Powerful with the actresses
'The Other Boleyn Girl' takes the crossroads of Britain history as background and depicts the tragedy of a family trying to get involved in the court of Henry VIII. As the male members of the Boleyn family are stimulated by a greed for power, the Boleyn women are propelled towards notoriety and damnation. There is a huge amount of literature novels, plays, films, etc. inspired from this period of Britain's history marked by love, revenge, passion, and blood. Some of them depicted Henry VIII as a womanizer, some as a pitiful creature lacking self-confidence; some as a reputation-driven King afraid of being overshadowed by the accomplishments of his father... 'The Other Boleyn Girl', however, apparently focuses more on the tragedy of the Boleyn family rather than Henry himself. The film is powerful with Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson, two talented and beautiful actresses. Although the film is a fest to the eyes with costumes and art direction, it fails to entertain the audience with a quality plot. Yet if you find this period of British history appealing, or if you are curious about what might have come out of the duo Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson , we recommend you to watch 'The Other Boleyn Girl'.
6 out of 10