I'm back !!

Its been a long time since I found time to update this blog. Had lots of interesting stuff happening meanwhile. But, first things first :).

About the movies...
The Wind Game - is about the letters to an old writer from his young friend in search of his father. Most of it was really abstract and I had a difficult time figuring out whether I really understood anything at all. The scence kept changing from an elusive white horse among ruins, to an equally elusive old loremaster among the same ruins, to a pretty lady seated among cool fountains, to the main protagonist despairing
over the parched desert surface, clutching about six small hollow bamboo sticks. When the movie got over I really had no idea if he found anything about his father. I'm still confused if I'm dumb or it was just meant to be that way.

Clear Skies After Rain - is a story of a beautiful girl who likes to sing and likes to believe she is a good singer. How she is stuck with a rude, arrogant husband who thinks he is Sylvester Stallone and a slick agent type who is trying to seduce her.

Ararath - is actually the name of a mountain in Armenia. Its shot using a really interesting concept of a movie inside a movie. In the movie "we" are watching a movie is being shot so, whenever there is a flashback to the original event the movie inside the movie kicks in. And when its done the the film smoothly transitions to the actual time (with respect to the movie that is...). The story is really complicated and
encompasses both the timezones. The central character of the movie is Arshile Gorky who is a painter famous painter. Now he has only a token presence physically in the movie but everything in the movie is about him and a self-portrait of him with his mother which is actually painted out of a photograph. Gorky was a kid when the massacre of the Armenians happened and later he comes to Canada marries, has a daughter, marries again to a writer who has a son from a previous marriage(to an Armenian revolutionary who blew up someone). The step brother and siter share a incestous relationship. The daughter accuses the writer wife of murdering her father but the writer claims he commited suicide...There are several interconnections for example the painting hangs in a museum where the disgruntled daughter tries to wreck it, the security guard's gay partner stars in the lead role of the movie inside the movie and his father is a customs officer who (disapproves the marriage...) and on his last day of duty catches the son of the writer inadvertently smuggling drugs into the country but eventually lets him go. I know most of the above does not make too much sense :) but the movie was a great watch.

Dance of the Wind - is a sad tale of a movie director who goes location scouting somewhere in tunisia for a movie he is going to shoot which is about a guy getting lost in the desert and dying...and the poor guy himself gets lost in the desert and dies(just like the movie he was going to shoot!! is it coincidence or what?).

Mademoiselle - is about a little excitement in the life of a happily married mother of two sales executive, who is out of town for a meeting and misses her train. She hitches a ride with the same entertainment troupe that entertained them the previous evening. This entertainment troupe consists of a married couple and a single guy. They call themselves the "Impromptu Company" and have no script ready for anything but pick each others cues excellently to astonish and entertain the audience. The sales executive does a little bit of impromptu herself and falls for the single guy and happily returns home to her family. (Realy cute
story...)