Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Walter Sloane Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Zoooma Snooze-fest. And I was duped! I was looking for a Vietnamese film with English subtitles. Not many to be found. Came across this which was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film representing Vietnam. It previously won the Camera d'Or at Canne. Well, turns out it was filmed on a sound stage in France. Seriously?!?! I wanted Hanoi, I got Paris. In any case, it's a well-filmed art-house movie, beautiful in its aesthetics (and thinking about it retrospect, a very close-up shot film to hide the fact it's all a studio set!) Unfortunately the movie suffers terribly in more ways than it's good. I'm not sure I've ever seen a slower moving film practically about nothing. An ordinary servant girl goes to live with a family at age 10. At age 20 she's working for someone else. That's about it. Antagonist? Conflict? Tension of any kind??? Not until about the last 10 minutes. Yawn. Sort of a Cinderella ending so perhaps a bit of a chick flick. Very well acted but yawn. Agonizingly slow. (Yawn!) High rating on IMDb but for my zero pirate dollars spent, it was (at the time) my 10th Worst Movie watched in 2013.3.4 / 10 stars--Zoooma, a Kat Pirate Screener

gavin6942 A little girl, Mui (Man San Lu), goes to a house as a new servant. The mother still mourns the death of her daughter, who would have been Mui's age. In her mind, she treats Mui as her daughter. Ten years later Mui (now a young woman, played by Tran Nu Yên-Khê) is sent to another family, a young pianist and his fiancé.The plot and characters aside, this film must be praised for its beautiful colors, especially the vibrant green (making the title most appropriate). Although it failed to win best foreign film at the Oscars, attention should be played to cinematographer Benoît Delhomme. He has gone on to make great films like "1408", "Boy in the Striped Pajamas" and "Lawless". Where is his nomination? On a totally unrelated note, I also liked the boy's obsession with inappropriate urination. Humorous, to say the least.

orocolorado I guess when people say this is beautifully filmed they are talking about the close ups of frogs and the cooking of meals. It certainly doesn't refer to the set which seems to be composed of about 3 rooms with no outside shots at all. Also all of it is filmed too close up.I got sick of the little boy who keeps farting at Miu or pouring hot wax over ants...also do Vietnamese spend all their time sitting on their haunches? Kind of gross looking at least the way this movie depicts it--one close up of it would have been plenty not a dozen or more.Then finally comes part two... a chick flick for Vietnamese girls with the perfect handsome rich man who spends all day playing the piano (He is cultured). The pretty maid steals him like the forbidden green mango fruit. Deep.Except for a few nice close ups this film is a dud. It is sort of a soap opera with out dialog. It is cloyed. How is it beautiful?? The set looks completely fake.No don't make the mistake I did and rent it because someone recommended it. I was expecting beautiful shots of the coastal mountains of Vietnam or something when I heard it was a visual gem.I wanted to like this movie. I like foreign movies even prefer them. But this movie is dumb and dull. It will leave you irritated that something like this won a bunch of prizes.

Armand The tip of film who seduced without a sure cause.A sweet powerful flavor of memories, time's ash, images of other secret age, spell of a subtle shadow.Poem of silence, slice of amazing dream, form of cult for ambiguous god.Wall of a delicate world of small gesture and impressive light.Signs like stairs, warm remember and love like reality's skin.Trip of soul on personal space before the Fall.Is it a masterpiece? No! Is it a beautiful movie? No! It is only prefiguration of self desire, escape in Golden Age.