Back in Canaan, Jacob and his family are starving, so he sends ten of his sons to Egypt to buy grain. They go ask Joseph to sell them some grain, but while Joseph recognizes them, they don’t, and he accuses them of being spies. Joseph puts them in jail, and after three days, he frees nine of them with the mission to go to Canaan and bring back the ( Read more... )

This is a more famous part of the story ( Read more... )

French movie.

Another huis-clos (and even with one of the actors that played in Diplomatie, whom I'm growing to really like). Three years before a cop put away a gangster who had committed a hold-up six months prior, but the money wasn't recovered and three goons managed to escape. Now, they've contrived to break their leader out of prison and to ( Read more... )

This is a wonderful movie about the reddition of Mazi-occupied Paris to the Allied Army in August 1944. (It's a fictionalized account).

Mostly, it is a huis-clos (I couldn't find the English translation of this, which means more or less a small number of people in one delimited space. Arsenic and Old Lace probably counts as that, for instance): so ( Read more... )

This is the second "old movies in the theater" that we went to see ( Read more... )

LEGOs ( Read more... )

This was a really enjoyable movie. What stops it from being rated "great" is the time it took in getting started - I though it was too slow ( Read more... )

While watching the movie, I kept being uneasy, and then I saw that it had been inspired by Stephen Zweig's writings and all was explained. (As a side note, The Chess Player is the only book of his that I read, but it left an unforgettable impression on me ( Read more... )

This is a French movie, so it probably won't cross our borders (you can note my wonderful trust in our movie industry right there). It is a very nice movie and a good adaptation (she said, never-mind that she had forgotten three fourth of the book before seeing the movie), nothing I saw seemed at odd with what I remembered of the book (and what ( Read more... )

This one is a French movie, so I don't know how relevant it will be for most of you ( Read more... )