Tuesday, January 26, 2010

A move for Tuesday

Break from the top 10 for a movie report:

THE EDGE OF HEAVEN

A double bonus movie, both on my 2008 Wisconsin Film Festival list and a critical favorite from metacritic. I'm ashamed to say that this wonderful movie was only a Plan B after my Blu-Ray of Tropic Thunder from Netflix started skipping 5 minutes in.

What I'm loving about a lot of recent indie films, for some odd reason, is the multiculturalism of everything. There are 3 languages (at least) in this movie, and they flow so naturally from scene to scene. The story is really incredible, with limitations, restrictions, and a difficult lack of resolution that only the best non-indulgent movies can pull off without having the view feel cheated.

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