The Notebook

Yes I know I am fully into love stories right now, but sometimes is just has to be...So here we go. An old man reads out of a notebook to an old lady. He is reading the love story of a young couple that meets in the summer holidays. She is rich and he is poor, to say it in short terms. And after the summer they split but, good luck, they can´t forget each other. But the mother of the girl doesn´t agree with her choice. We find out during the movie that the love story is the story of the two old people. The old man reads the sory again and again because she doesn´t know who she is and who he is anymore. But sometimes, in very short moments she remembers, that´s why he is with her. I know I know it is helpless unrealistic but soooooo sad and touching. Girls, take some chocolate and some papers to blow your nose. Enjoy.

The story of us

Ben Jordan (Bruce Willis) and Katie Jordan (Michelle Pfeiffer) are married since 15 years. They have two lovely american kids but somehow the love got lost along the way. So what are they doing? Right, they send their wonderful kids to this holiday camp and then they split. And while boney american beauty Katie alias Michelle Pfeiffer is doing everything she does anwayway Ben alias Bruce Willis lies in bed in a hotel watching TV. Sometimes they meet with friends, seperatly of course. They both look amazingly good living with the desperation. Katie starts having dates with a charming, divorced dentist. Ben finds a house where he moves into. In between the two actors are telling us in outcut scences how they feel, why all these things are happening and how they hurt each other. And of course only the other one is to blame. But what would Hollywood be without a happy end? Actually this movie is made quite nice, having the difficulty of a long relationship as the main topic, so it starts where most love stories and. And even though it is Holloywood through and through it is authentic made. Bruce Willis is doing a good job out of action stuff.

Maria Montessori: una vita per i bambini (2007)

These days I've been watching a twofold Italian TV film about Maria Montessori, the founder of the Montessori schools. As you can tell by the subtitle - una vita per i bambini - it's the kind of historic movie that's all in ochre and sunbathed colours, where even the real poor children beating each other up in the streets make you long for the good old times when life was so slow and colourful, before cars arrived and people started to sit with crooked backs like me right now. Because Maria Montessori (charismatic Paola Cortellesi) has a very straight back, you know. She also has a very strong character, especially in dialogue with the masses of men (Maria Montessori was the first woman in Italy to study medicine) that have no idea children don't need only clean beds but also warmth and affection - and a patient and warm side to it that makes all the rioting children come circle around her feet when she sits down in a corner with a baby in her arms. If only life was that easy for me! If only I was like that! - It's always nice to watch a movie where you can rely on the main character to remain true to (especially) her-self whatever dictator comes up. The impersonation of a pretty thought...

Requiem

Anneliese Michel grows up in a small catholic village in Bavaria. Her parents are very religious, the family goes to church every sunday and prays before the melas and before going to sleep. We get to know Anneliese when she is 21 years old and she just got the acceptance of the university in Tübingen. Her mother doesn´t want her to go but her father supports his daughter. Annelies starts to study and enjoys her freedom. But then the the seizures start again. Voices are screaming at her, she is panicking, she has epileptic seizures. They are worse than ever before. Anneliese goes from one doctor to another but she is not paying attention to the advice to go to a psycho analyst. She is convinced that won´t help. She starts to think she is possessed by some evil power, by deamonds or devils. So she starts an Exorzismus. This movie is after a true story that happened in the 70s. The main actress Sandra Hueller is just amazing. Watch it.