We went to see
Gomorra this evening. Sad, touching, brutal and frightening. As is often the case, the Cannes jury didn't pick an easy film as the best picture this year.
I'm glad I recently did Sopranos marathons, because I was better able to tolerate the violence, and because it made that NJ mafia look warm and fuzzy.
In Gomorrah the director did a great job of developing empathy for several characters, in particular the two young punks who have more testosterone than brains, the couture foreman, and the older money man. The best was probably the young Tito, although waste management situation was also pretty incredible.
Hard movie, but very good.
We watched the French thriller/police movie Le Cercle Rouge in two parts.
I've been stuck on Salaman Rushdie's Satanic Vesres for several weeks now - the book was harder than I was prepared for, and when the story slowed down I just stopped reading for a while. I've tried forcing myself a few times but didn't really feel it, the reading bug didn't catch, and so I decided to start something else.
We watched Three Days of the Condor last night, which was a real mid-70's period movie featuring paranoia of the government trying to do everything possible to protect Middle Eastern oil interests. Could easily be remade for today, that issue is just as pertinent (although maybe we're a bit less affected by the post-Watergate era). 
Our choices for family movies are getting broader as A gets older, but Didier was more in the kid-stuff genre anyway. It was amusing and an original idea (dog gets transformed into a man) but the pace was slow at times and unless one is a huge football (soccer) fan there were some sequences that were grating on my nerves. 
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