Since it’s Spring/ Summer and flowers are in bloom, I decided
to do it a bit different. I picked five films, with a flower in the title. Here are five films I think are not as
well-known or deserve more attention. And I think you should definitely give
them a shot.
A tragic comedy about snobby millionaire wife Jasmine, who after her husband’s exposure as a fraud moves into the apartment of her sister Ginger, a cashier with a soft spot for tattoeed auto mechanics and handymen. In a sequence of bittersweet romance and downright painful skits, director Woody Allen conjured up a beautifully contemporary “A Streetcar named Desire” type of film, with Cate Blanchett shining as a self-talking neurotic wreck.
Oliver and Barbara Rose’s marriage is in u rut. Not that anyone can say what’s going wrong right now, but from the moment the kids are in college, Barbara feels a deep dislike for husband. They start bullying each other and the situation becomes more and more dramatic, so that at one point all they can do is hate each other. It’s a black comedy that shows how far people can go in their drive to destroy another psychologically and physically. Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner were cast against their image, but what they deliver is great class. Danny DeVito portrays a wonderful supporting role.
When mysterious murders are committed in a monastery in northern Italy in the late Middle Ages, the Franciscan monk William of Baskerville, travels to the scene of the calamity to bring light into the darkness with an uncharacteristically rational eye. His assistant Adso observes, learns and shudders at the sight of the deformed monastics with their lousy manners. It might not be a very special film, but it somehow always stayed with me.
A melancholic road movie starring Bill Murray as a Don Johnston, who has made his fortune in the IT business. After getting kicked out by his latest girlfriend, he receives a letter in which the anonymous sender reports that Don has had a son for nineteen years. Stimulated by his neighbor, a self-proclaimed detective who also writes thrillers, Don embarks on a tour of some of his ex-lovers.
The fact that hardly anything happens in this feel-good film is not bad at all: the ensemble cast is unanimously up to speed and the subject matter is quite original. A group of British seniors travel to India to spend their last days in an exclusive resort for the elderly. Once they arrive they discover that the resort is not quite falling apart apart from misery. But soon the group are having a great time together. It’s a heartwarming movie.
