Telluride 2015

Telluride 2015
THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY

really, really good films that made my day:

Beasts of No Nation

In an unnamed African country a happy ten year old boy loses his loving family to a senseless and violent civil war. A rebel commander (Idris Elba – Mandela) picks him up and turns him into a soldier capable of doing “terrible things”. Cruelty, rape, torture and every other unspeakable act are carried out with a kind of nonchalance by the band of child soldiers who have no idea what they are fighting for … hard to watch but absolutely riveting.

Sundance 2015

SUNDANCE 2015
THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY

I loved these films. they made my day:

brooklyn

The screenwriter is Nick Hornby and I like just about everything he writes (High Fidelity, About a Boy). Saoirse Ronan gives an affecting performance as an Irish immigrant who comes to America in the 1950s rings true. She falls in love in America, but when she goes “home” to Ireland to visit she becomes entangled with a local boy. A tough choice ensues.