Luis Costa (Alain Chabat) is living a charmed life: he is a successful perfume designer, known around the office as “Le Nez” (the nose), he is a handsome forty-something, and above all, he’s carefree and single. He dates whomever he pleases and happily lives alone.

Luis’ happy existence is threatened when his strongwilled mother and five equally overbearing sisters decide it’s time for him to marry. They are sick of doing his laundry, cooking his meals and waiting on him hand and foot, so they set him up on a seemingly neverending series of blind dates with all of the single women they know (and even some that they don’t — found via the internet).

After a month of exhausting bad dates, and too afraid to take on his family, Luis hatches a hare-brained scheme: he will find the “perfect woman,” pay her to pose as his fiancee and charm his family, but then jilt him at the altar on their wedding day. That way, his family will feel sorry for him and never mention marriage to him ever again. Emmanuelle (Charlotte Gainsbourg), his best friend’s sister, has just moved to Paris and is looking for a quick way to earn some cash. It seems like a win-win situation, but the best-laid plans of single men can go horribly and hilariously wrong.

This was a really funny movie! Thank you Netflix for supplying the movies for my deadbeat summer.

I saw this today and it was pretty sweet! A really great coming-of-age story and the Under Pressure scene was all kinds of awesome. Movies with a mental institution as its setting are always promising.

I watched the film Le Grand Bleu, which I was initially blowing off in the beginning because I didn’t think a story of a couple of free divers would be that interesting, but the instant I saw Jean Reno, who I learned to love in Leon - I really started to like it.

It was a bit weird in some parts and I wanted to punch Jean-Marc Barr’s love interest in the movie when she started begging for a baby, which I thought was psycho - maybe because I just don’t understand yet or shit because I’m a sixteen year old girl.

Well, it was a really good film and I loved/hated the ending. I knew a bit about free diving beforehand and after watching this, I just have more admiration for people who plummet themselves deep in the ocean and hold their breaths for a really long time. They could die, and in fact, people die - but from watching, there’s probably a surreal peace 400 feet underwater that most of the human population will never get to experience.

My heart had done a little leap, because in a single stroke, with that little laugh of agreement, it felt as though Tommy and I had come close together again after all the years.

“Cause if you shoot a bullet, someone dies. When you drop a bomb, many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But… if you say the f-word, nothing actually happens.”

- The Count (The Boat that Rocked)

kendramatic:

“To all our listeners, this is what I have to say - God bless you all. And as for you bastards in charge, don’t dream it’s over. Years will come, years will go, and politicians will do fuck all to make the world a better place. But all over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams and put those dreams into song. Nothing important dies tonight, just a few ugly guys on a crappy ship. The only sadness tonight is that, in future years, there’ll be so many fantastic songs that will not be our privilege to play. But, believe you me, they will still be written, they will still be sung and they will be the wonder of the world.”
Pirate Radio (2009)

As children, Ruth, Kathy and Tommy, spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. As they grow into young adults, they find that they have to come to terms with the strength of the love they feel for each other, while preparing themselves for the haunting reality that awaits them.

The film version of Never Let Me Go is so enamoring and moving - and Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, and Keira Knightley were fantastic. It was really wonderful seeing the most touching parts in the book that I loved played out.

an early dismissal at school constitutes a kickass zombie comedy

I watched the movie All Good Things which is ”a love story and murder mystery based on the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history”.

Ryan Gosling was creepy, but still so damn sexy and of course - Kirsten Dunst was beautiful and her performance was really good. I am now on a Ryan Gosling high.

I watched this movie last night and it is seriously brain-tripping epic shit. Apparently, people love to take acid while watching this movie - which I don’t understand, since I felt like I was on acid without taking any while watching this movie. Acid will simply induce nightmares of cosmic proportions. It really is this huge cinematic, well space odyssey (aptly titled). First of all, I can’t believe this movie was made in 1969 because it is absolutely timeless, and its depiction of the future is really eerie and cool; it made me want to be a flight stewardess for a space ship just so I can walk around a tube with grip shoes to deliver the captains’ delicious baby mush food tray. The combination of the soundtrack and ominous looking monolith block scared the crap out of me. Screw the conventional image of a green martian; black monoliths haunt me now. At first, I really didn’t get the symbolism in the movie, especially at the end; I was just left wondering why there’s a freaking giant space baby as big as the Earth. But then I googled everything and I realized the sheer brilliance of it all. Good job, Stanley Kubrick. I’m off to watch Lolita any day now.