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One Too Many
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- Perth, Australia
Don't know if any of of you have see ROSENSTRASSE. Set in Berlin1943:
An anonymous street in the heart of Berlin seems an unlikely location for one of the most amazing acts of resistance of World War II, but it was here that a small group of women took on HitlerÃs SS and won. In 1943 Lena was a beautiful, talented pianist disowned by her aristocratic father because she married a Jew. When her husband is rounded up by the Nazis Lena tracks him down to an old building in Rosenstrasse where he and hundreds of others await deportation to the camps. Sixty years later, a New York journalist, Hannah Weinstein arrives in Berlin to talk to Lena Fischer, the woman who saved her motherÃs life. The story intertwines the stories of Hannah and Lena, Berlin 1943 and New York 2001, Rosenstrasse becomes a film about today, a plea for tolerance and solidarity as well as a compassionate love story.
A GOOD WOMAN is great also:
Set in the 1930Ãs on the beautiful Italian Riviera A Good Woman is an elegant, witty, romantic comedy based on Oscar WildeÃs Lady WindermereÃs Fan. A young couple's marriage is put in jeopardy by high-society gossip of an affair blossoming. Robert Windermere (Mark Umbers) is accused with providing a secret allowance for Mrs Erlynne (Helen Hunt) a vampish older woman of ill repute, whilst his wife, Meg Windermere (Scarlett Johansson), courts the attention of Lord Darlington (Stephen Campbell Moore), a notorious playboy.
It's a veritable smorgasboard of beautiful fashion of the time for both men and women. I can't stand Helen Hunt though, and that was the only let down.
An anonymous street in the heart of Berlin seems an unlikely location for one of the most amazing acts of resistance of World War II, but it was here that a small group of women took on HitlerÃs SS and won. In 1943 Lena was a beautiful, talented pianist disowned by her aristocratic father because she married a Jew. When her husband is rounded up by the Nazis Lena tracks him down to an old building in Rosenstrasse where he and hundreds of others await deportation to the camps. Sixty years later, a New York journalist, Hannah Weinstein arrives in Berlin to talk to Lena Fischer, the woman who saved her motherÃs life. The story intertwines the stories of Hannah and Lena, Berlin 1943 and New York 2001, Rosenstrasse becomes a film about today, a plea for tolerance and solidarity as well as a compassionate love story.
A GOOD WOMAN is great also:
Set in the 1930Ãs on the beautiful Italian Riviera A Good Woman is an elegant, witty, romantic comedy based on Oscar WildeÃs Lady WindermereÃs Fan. A young couple's marriage is put in jeopardy by high-society gossip of an affair blossoming. Robert Windermere (Mark Umbers) is accused with providing a secret allowance for Mrs Erlynne (Helen Hunt) a vampish older woman of ill repute, whilst his wife, Meg Windermere (Scarlett Johansson), courts the attention of Lord Darlington (Stephen Campbell Moore), a notorious playboy.
It's a veritable smorgasboard of beautiful fashion of the time for both men and women. I can't stand Helen Hunt though, and that was the only let down.
