On Sunday after playing a heap of Civ3 (I won by game purely on score at retirement year last night for those who have been following my game with baited breath) we saw two movies at the Embassy:
36, Quai des Ofevres which is the only *French* hardboiled cope drama I've seen. It was astoundingly well made, slick and crisp. The action scenes brutal but fast, the acting top notch. The story follows two rival cops who want the same promotion. One is a self-serving 'straight cop' who will bend the rules to get ahead. The other is a very effective cop who uses gangland style methods and is well liked by his team. It was sorta like LA Confidential except that the characters were many more shades of grey and it was set in present day France....
Then we sawBroken Flowers which is Jim Jarmusch's (Coffee and Cigarettes) new film. It was awesome. Bill Murray plays an aging bachelor who finds out via an anonymous letter that he has a son. He has five options for which girlfriend of 20 years ago it could be and goes to see them. Classic social comedy full of great characters, set pieces and awkward silences. I've never seen full frontal nudity used to such good comic effect as in this movie. 5 stars, 5 Babylons, ten out of ten. Can't wait to own the DVD!
Lee also liked it, so there you have it.