recent movies
The Hurt Locker is opening this weekend; I strongly recommend it. See my comments here.

I liked Moon but it’s too bad that the trailer and most reviews spoiled one of the plot twists. Nevertheless a provocative science fiction movie; Sam Rockwell is great.

Whatever Works was pretty disappointing after a good start. Usually I like Patricia Clarkson but this movie went way downhill as soon as she appeared. Actually it was heading downhill before that. I did like the first ten minutes or so.

Summer Hours (L’Heure d’été): a great film by Olivier Assayas.

Séraphine: I liked this but I got the impression that it was following the documented facts too slavishly. Maybe I’m wrong but it just felt that the events at the end happened without a reason. The film is about real people and in real life it may have been that there is no known explanation for what happened, but if that’s the case, it would have made a better film to depart from that and give some kind of foreshadowing.