Cinema Festival at chez Candles: and the winner is ....

James, absolutely, totally James.


During the holidays, we've managed to watch a few movies, and Casino Royale was the best suprise.
Actually I was a bit tired of the james Bond series, very disappointed by the last ones...
But this one, woooaaaa!
First I though the new JB/Mr Craig was just good meat for the eyes. But I was wrong, the movie was fresh, while sticking to the James Bond atmosphere, avoiding all the heavy clichés (or playing with them). The dialogues, the script, Eva Green naturally. Perfect. A surprise!

the big loser of the festival :P :


I expected something much better from Stephen Frears. The Queen was the most boring one I had seen in ages. All the Diana stuff in it, the poor approach of it, and the rest was so uninteresting! After 45 minutes I gave up.


The voice of Homer in German was really funny! It was, ok, I liked the movie but, just like I enjoy a doughnut once a year, huh :)


Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix is actually the only book of the series I haven't read. It was a wise advice from Martin who did not enjoy it.
The movie was particularly uninspired, even the characters, costumes included, etc...
Now I worry because I've just seen that Paul Yates, the director, has made the next Harry Potter movie! Oh noooo!!!! The next books are so good, I hope he won't spoil them!


To avoid watching too many cartoons (but now I think of it, I love cartoons!), we had to make compromises with the kids. Here's another compromise. No surprise. Lola loved it!


A most wonderful surprise. I couldn't believe it was made for tv. Helen Mirren, who's also very good in "The Queen" I admit, is brilliant here. I spent a great moment with Elizabeth I


Unfortunately, they were not available in English. I tried in Spanish with German subtitles, but it was too confusing , I could not help reading.. then I lost the threads with the Spanish and finally understood nothing! lol
As usual Spanish is spoken too quickly for me... I also realized that I'm really fond of the German language now, I should have watched them in German!
Anyway, I really can't tell how good or bad these 2 have been! lol

I also wanted to watch Babel but I had not enough time... boooo