Cine

Some movies suggestions I got at a Super Tuesday party last night:

After The Wedding (Denmark)
To save the failing orphanage he runs in India, Danish transplant Jacob Petersen (Mads Mikkelsen) returns to his homeland to meet a self-indulgent businessman named Jørgen who's offered a generous donation -- and who represents everything the noble-minded Jacob abhors. Complicating matters further are the unusual strings Jørgen has attached to his so-called gift. Rolf Lassgård co-stars in this Oscar-nominated emotional powerhouse of a drama.

Climates (Turkey)
Isa is a college professor in a stormy relationship with television producer Bahar. They've been together for years, but on a seaside vacation with friends, tensions rise, and Bahar ends their romance and returns to Istanbul alone. Ambivalence haunts the separated lovers as they decide whether to reconcile. Nuri Bilge Ceylan is writer, director and star of the torrid romance, while his real-life wife, Ebru Ceylan, portrays Bahar.

Distant (Turkey)
Mahmut (Muzzafer Özdemir), a divorced, hermit-like photographer, lets his dopey cousin Yusuf (Mehmet Emin Toprak) live with him for a while in Istanbul while Yusuf looks for a job so he can support his family in their native Turkish village. The distance -- and silence -- between the two lonely, depressed men soon grows to intolerance, on Mahmut's part, of the chaos Yusuf has brought into his life. Nuri Bilge Ceylan (also directed Climates, see above) directs this intimate drama.

I will review these here after I watch them. Please comment if you have seen these films or would like to contribute other reviews. Best film I've seen recently: Ratatouille!