Its been so long since I have added my short reports on films I’ve seen, I thought I would do a catch up exercise. I’ll try to add a 1-2 line comment to each.
This is about 15 months of DVD rentals via a mail service + a few I own. Still trying to remember some.
(most recent first)

No Man’s Land (aka Nicija Zemlja) - a film about ennemi soldiers stuck in a trench while the UN try to get them out. Manages to be both profoundly “human” and terribly cynical at the same time. An incredible story, with humour but very dark in the end. Some incredible lines… like this bosnian soldier in a sad trench, reading the paper and going “what a terrible mess, in rwanda!”

The Chorus (aka Les Choristes) - lovely film, excellent acting including by the children and teens. The story is “teacher changes pupils’ life”, a classic theme, but the whole film is quite subtle and understated and so enjoyable. The music can only be described as luminous. I enjoyed it. I hear they are going to remake it in the UK/US and can only worry - they will probably add mounds of drama (one or more of death! sex! guns!)…

Brotherhood (aka Taegukgi) - a film about the Corean war, following two brothers recruited by force. Not knowing much about the Corean war I found it very good, as it seemed to show the chaos and absurdity of war, and a lot of incompetence and malice on all sides. I totally got immersed in it, the supension of disbelief held through which is quite rare for me

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