On this page, I'll post a few movies from foreign countries that are worth watching.
The Lady
Follows Aung Sang Suu Kyi's life. This movie does contain some violent scenes, that however probably accurately reflect what Myanmar went through. Definitely worth watching. It was a real eye-opener for me.
Korean
Cyrano Agency
Yes this film involves love, but as far as I can tell every romantic instance ends in a funny twist. This is mainly do to the fact that its all staged: A theatre groups uses their talents to stage romantic settings for paying customers wanting to find their love. In this film love follows a strict "script", at least theoretically - in pratisce it might turn out that love cannot be produced so easily. And what if one of the theartre members falls in love with one of the customer's girlfriends? Quite amusing really!
Miracle of giving fool
Ji-ho returns home after a once promising musical career turns out to break her. Upon her return she encounters Sung-ryong, who gives her a warm greeting and is genuinly happy to see her. At first, Ji-ho is surprised at his strange and childish appearance. Soon she recalls that he was one of her classmates and that a faulty oven had killed his father and left his brain permanently impaired. At this time of a personal crises, Ji-ho feels Sung-ryong is the only person she can openly talk to. In fact, Sung-ryong hardly seems to be able to take care of himself at first sight - he always looses his shoes - but as the story progresses, we find out a lot more: In fact, he works at a toast-stand and has even adopted the role of his mother to his sister after she passed away.
Too bad is the choice of the actors. Though he acts surprisingly well, Chae Tae-Yeon isn't the guy for the job.
The Classic
A movie about a difficult - and impossible - relationship that involves the Korean war. It has historic events in it, it's moving to watch, has interesting parallels between past and present but is no masterpiece.
Late autumn
This is a remake of a Korean movie that has apparently attracted many viewers. The story was modified a bit. A good part of it now takes place in Seattle and the main actress is Chinese. The intention was to attract international audiences. The film was released in China and America in 2011 and 2012 respectively. Tang Wei is a wonderful actress. Without saying much at all, she brings across what is going through her mind in many instances.
Bin-jip
A film from Kim Ki-Duk, a Korean film-maker more popular abroad than in his home country. Different!
China and Taiwan
Afterschock
About the Tangshan earthquake. The foreign actor playing the Canadian husband only barely fails to ruin this otherwise great movie.
One Day
Blue Cha Cha
This is definitely one of the best movies I have ever seen.
She, a Chinese
India
Three idiots
Very good movie, that involves everything life has to offer: happiness, grief, losses, births... But its also quite long. You can't really tell whether it is a comedy or a drama.
Outsourced
Hollywood in Bollywood, I really liked this one!
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