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simonwoollard
Reviews
Pod prikritie (2011)
Brilliant!
I had never seen this Bulgarian TV series before and was unsure how it would come across with English subtitles. I was bowled over by it and am now absolutely hooked. The storyline, production and acting is top notch - absolutely superb and as good, if not better, than anything produced elsewhere in Europe and the USA. I'm watching in the UK on Netflix but for some reason series 3 is omitted from the five produced.
Whistle Down the Wind (1961)
Well worth seeing
I saw this film as a 7-year old child when it was first released and 46 years on, I still remember being enchanted by it.
It looks at a world through children's eyes and when a bearded man (who is on the run from the police) is found by them hiding in a barn, the children believe he is Jesus Christ. That the man is actually a murderer is neither here nor there really - it is the children's innocence and their faith in the Bible that shows through in their actions in hiding and feeding the man, and which to me, is so touching about this film. Sadly the children of today would probably not be as trusting as those shown in the film or in that era. In the end, of course, the adult "real" world has to intrude into the children's world when the fugitive is caught and taken away.
The theme music by Malcolm Arnold is a tune that I carried in my head for many a year (and only today have I been able to track it down and downloaded it!). Of course, the Andrew Lloyd Webber show of the same name gets confused with it.
I heartily recommend this film. One could imagine Steven Spielberg doing a re-make of this as it is has similarities to E.T.