My reviews

105 Minutes of Sheer Fun!

Howard Hawks’s “I Was a Male War Bride”(1949) is one of the most funny movies with Cary Grant I’ve ever seen. As a matter of fact, it is one of the most hilarious movies ever. The story is set in a postwar Germany, with ruins on the background, but the life seemingly coming more or less to normal. Henri Rochard (Cary Grant) is a French Captain from the French Economic mission, who is often supported in his missions by the US Army Lieutenant Catherine Gates (Ann Sheridan), a sharp-tongued female interpreter. From the very first scene in the movie, when Henri finds Catherine in her office to (quite publicly) return her very personal belongings he’d gotten by mistake on their previous trip, >

For Roseanna

I was hunting for this movie for a long time. I am a big fan of Jean Reno and had seen the movie previously on VHS, but forgot the title and therefore had some problems tracking it down on DVD. All this was not in vain – the movie was as wonderful and sweet as I remembered it. It’s very difficult to define its genre – it’s a cocktail of comedy and drama, mixed together almost equally.  The story seems to be a bit macabre from the first glance – Marcello (Jean Reno), the owner of a small restaurant in a sleepy little town somewhere in Italy, has promised his dying wife Roseanna (Mercedes Ruehl) that he will bury her in the old town cemetery upon her death, so she could be together with their only little daughter, who died a long time ago. Unfortunately, there are only very few plots left

I was hunting for this movie for a long time. I am a big fan of Jean Reno and had seen the movie previously on VHS, but forgot the title and therefore had some problems tracking it down on DVD. All this was not in vain – the movie was as wonderful and sweet as I remembered it. It’s very difficult to define its genre – it’s a cocktail of comedy and drama, mixed together almost equally.  The story seems to be a bit macabre from the first glance – Marcello (Jean Reno), the owner of a small restaurant in a sleepy little town somewhere in Italy, has promised his dying wife Roseanna (Mercedes Ruehl) that he will bury her in the old town cemetery upon her death, so she could be together with their only little daughter, who died a long time ago. Unfortunately, there are only very few plots left

“Meet the Fockers” had a big promise of great fun for me – I’ve liked the first movie, Meet the Parents, quite a lot. Meet the Fockers is about Pam’s parents finally meeting the future in-laws – an event Greg clearly is very nervous about. Things start rather smoothly, even as Pam and Greg get to the Byrneses house, where Jack is happily engaged in the grand-parenting business – a bit obsessively as is a custom with him, with Little Jack (or L.J. for short) as the object of his child-raising experiments, but then they very quickly get on a bumpy road. The main problem is the Fockers are

The Houseboat is a very romantic, light-hearted movie. It is a little gem with Cary Grant playing his usual role of a debonaire bachelor with a little twist – this time he’s a widower, a single father of three young children who suddenly decides that the children have to live with him. Suffice it to say that he’s had very little previous experience raising his kids – and it shows!

Another improbable twist – enter the rebellious daughter of an Italian music conductor as a nanny (a very young and very exotic Sophia Loren) – and the fun begins.