Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by tinear (A) on July 02, 2007 at 17:08:28

films but all excellent and highly recommended.
"La Bete" has a very erroneous description at Netflix. It is the story of a man with murderous rages which he has controlled but at great emotional cost. He witnesses a crime and falls deeply in love with one of the perpetrators, ignoring her violently jealous husband.
"Claire's Knee" is another in the Rohmer series of "Moral Tales," and it is one of the more complex. A middle-aged man, vacationing at a home in the incredibly beautiful Swiss mountain lake country, begins flirting with the 16-yr. old daugher of an acquaintance while he whiles away the time awaiting his marriage. His intellectual ruminations about love, flirtation, and morality soon are put to a test whose results are surprising and shocking.
Lastly, the "Harp" tells the intriguing story of an isolated Japanese squadron in Burma which slowly discovers Japan has surrendered and their fight is over.
As they are taken into custody for reptratriation by the British, they are informed that a group of Japanese holed up in a mountain hideaway refuse to surrender.
A soldier from the camp agrees to attempt to convince them, although the British give him the almost impossible time limit of 30 minutes.
This is a beautiful film which is not really anti-war so much as pro-human and Zen-like.
For true lovers of film, missing any one of these is out of the question.