films

Now that I am hearing impaired, I'm really appreciating subtitles.   Not all movies come with subtitles.  That's annoying.

But foreign films generally do, so I've been watching a few.

A couple of good ones -

Eyes without a face - a good old French B&W thriller made in the 1960 about a mad doctor whose daughter's face is badly damaged in a fire so he does bad things to get her a new face.

Son of a Lion - This is an extraordinary film, made by an Australian film maker, set in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan.  It involved a lot of under cover filming and is about an Afghani man who services guns and refuses to let his 11 year old son go to school because the guns are much more important.  Here's a review of it.  

I really like the way it was made. I feels like you are watching a documentary as it is so realistic and the acting is very good.  The characters are well developed quite quickly because of the dialogue, in a way that they really do come across as normal people.  I really recommend it.

And another Fellini film - La Dolce Vita.  Not exactly enjoyable viewing and typical of foreign films it is explicit way ahead of it's time.  Interesting mainly because its makes a statement about the futility of the rich society living shallow and exorbitant lives.  And I learnt the origin of the word "paparazzi".  It comes from a character in this film named "Paparazzo", who is a photo journalist and is quite intrusive when it comes to getting the photos he wants.