I’ve managed to catch a few films of late and i would definitely recommend the French film Le Grande Voyage. It’s a coming of age tale about a young French Muslim man who drives his elderly father from France to Mecca for his Haj, and how the road trip leads him to know his father and Islam better. Invaluable life lessons are also installed for the young man in this religious road trip.
Jarhead is also another film worth catching. Based on the novel, it is a film directed by Sam Mendes of American Beauty fame. The film is based on US Marine Anthony Swofford’s memoir that gave a firsthand account of what life was like during the Gulf War in 1991. I’m normally not a fan of war movies, but I enjoyed this as it’s not a typical I-kill-you-you-kill-me kind of war movie with incessant gunfire and bombings.
Memoirs of a Geisha was crap. The only things I liked about it were its cinematography, the young Japanese girl who plays the young Sayuri, Gong Li.