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La Vie en Rose

Even though I am familiar with Edith Piaf and have a couple of her recompilation Cd’s at home, I wasn’t very familiar with too many of her songs. However, it’s almost impossible not to have listened to La Vie en Rose –which is probably her better-known song- at least once and not to have been deeply touched by the French singer’s heartbreaking voice. Her style resembled her tragic life story and that’s why her specialty was the poignant... (Read more.)

Mean Girls

Believe it or not, Mark Waters’ Mean Girls is one of the most effective “teen comedies” I’ve watched in the last few years. It may have Lindsay Lohan –who isn’t an actress with a very good reputation- in the leading role but it also has Tina Fey and Rachel McAdams. Besides, this movie is certainly one of the best –if not the best- Lohan has taken part of. It manages to satirize high school life in a way which doesn’t feel moronic... (Read more.)

Hannibal Rising

When Thomas Harris wrote the first Hannibal Lecter novel he didn’t imagine the psychopathic serial assassin would be one of the most easily recognizable fictional characters in modern cinema history. After Anthony Hopkins’ astonishing interpretation in Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs –which by the way is one of the only three movies that has won all five most important Academy Awards which are... (Read more.)

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