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April 30th 2009
Published: April 30th 2009
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Odete (Portugal 2005, 101 mins)
No reason to get excited about Odete (Two Drifters). Either it's a writers block or that's just the portuguese way, but there isn't a lot of dialogoue in this flick. No or hardly any talking at all doesn't always have to be bad. Say it's a movie about penguins or monkeys, or some other documentary set in some exotic spectacular nature far away. However no penguins or any nature save the flower on Pedro's (ghost character in the movie) grave made it in to this picture. Sorry Portugal, but I'm sure you can do better than this.

Black Cat, White Cat (Serbia 1998, 124 mins)
Noisy, chaotic about gupsy life in the Balkans. More a collection of scenes thrown togheter into one movie, though lack of a coherent plot made it feel a bit, well noisy and chaotic. No reason to see this one.

El otro lado de la cama (Spain 2002, 112 mins)
Musicals are usually about the music, mostly. This one however feels a bit less like a musical, more of a love story where the characters burst into singing a few times. Save the music, it's not all bad. The story is simple and straightforward, which usually is a good thing. Though this time it feels like someone hits the replay button every ten or fifteen minutes. A little progress would't hurt.

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