Happy Birthday!
Sep. 4th, 2009 04:10 amHappy birthday,
kaustin.

Cherien Dabis’s “Amreeka” (the Arabic word for America) stands alongside “The Visitor" and “Maria Full of Grace” as one of the most accomplished recent films about a non-European immigrant coming to the United States. While the arrivals in the other two movies were not legal immigrants, the indomitably good-natured protagonist of “Amreeka,” Muna Farah (Nisreen Faour), is a divorced non-Muslim Palestinian woman with a green card. More
The two people drifting through “Unmade Beds,” a lovely, somewhat messy movie about lovely, messy young lives, cross paths only twice. The first time, Axl (Fernando Tielve), a transplant from Spain by way of myriad anonymous flops, is walking out of the sprawling London squat he unknowingly shares with a Frenchwoman, Vera (Déborah François). He’s wearing her striped school jacket, which he retrieved from the kitchen where she had abandoned it. Axl is looking for someone, and Vera wants to lose someone else, though of course because this is about a pair of fledglings, they are also looking for themselves. More