Written and directed by Richard Curtis, who also wrote Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones’s Diary, Love Actually has much to recommend it, despite a couple of storylines of questionable taste. The film is book-ended by scenes of arrivals and departures at London’s Heathrow Airport, as we hear a narrator state …
My Sailor, My Love (2022)
When his estranged daughter hires a maid to help care for her aged father, she does not expect them to fall in love.
Past Lives (202)
Writer-director Celine Song leaves the fantasy world of The Wheel of Time, which she scripted, to give us a heart-warming story set in the present world of the romantic, yet pragmatic. Divided into three parts, hers is a spiritual film, though that of Buddhism rather than Christianity. It is infused with such wisdom and restraint …
Other People’s Children (2022)
French writer director Rebecca Zlotowski puts a different spin on this rom-com tale of a woman falling in love with a divorced man who is co-parenting a little daughter. There is no cute meeting, nor a love conquers all denouement after encountering countless barriers to happiness. Indeed, the conclusion is a good example of love …
The Blue Caftan (2022)
A closeted Moroccan gay tailor hires a young apprentice, & the attraction between the 2 arouses the jealousy of his wife.
The Quiet Girl (2022)
A shy, quiet Irish girl ignored by her overly taxed pregnant mother and drunkard father blossoms during the summer she spends with loving relatives.
I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO (2016)
Raoul Peck uses an unpublished James Baldwin work as his guide & script, enriched by archival clips & interviews, to expose racism in the US.
A Love Song (2022)
A rare film of romance of an older widowed woman waiting at a campground for an old h.s. flame to join her & see if they have a future together.
Flag Day (2021)
John Vogel is a schemer seldom telling the truth to his daughter Jennifer, though she overcomes this to become a journalist.
Minari (2021)
A Korean immigrant family moves from California to engage in farming in Arkansas, almost splitting up because of difficulties.