RandomCha

The Princess of Montpensier [2010]

1. The Duc relates the recipe for the eels, with great relish and in great detail.
2. She rushes out of the bedroom of the newlyweds, holding a cloth. “Just a mousy squeak,” she tells the expectant fathers. “But there’s blood.” She shows them the cloth. The two men smile at each other and shake hands.
3. He pulls some ferns out of the ground and uses them to wipe the blood off his hands.

This film is screening as part of the Chicago International Film Festival.

My Good Enemy [2010]

1. His little sister brings him breakfast on a tray. “Do you realize how hard it is to make toast?” she asks.
2. A bag of pot, a lunchbox, and an onion.
3. He gives her an awkward compliment on her braces.

This film is screening as part of the Chicago International Film Festival.

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives [2010]

1. She flips through the pages of the photo album, looking at pictures of her own funeral.
2. Sleeping beneath pink mosquito netting. Her sister’s ghost, sitting near the bed on a chair, slowly dissolves into the air.
3. She says the soap is like lemongrass. “It makes you smell like Tom Yum soup,” she tells him.

This film is screening as part of the Chicago International Film Festival.

Norman [2010]

1. “Satire is not to be confused with irony.”
2. The alarm on his Casio wristwatch is set to go off at 3:36pm daily.
3. “On the top shelf is a bottle of 18-year old scotch, and I’ve had that bottle for 18 years, so it’s a bottle of 36-year old scotch.”

This film is screening as part of the Chicago International Film Festival.