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"Giovanni is a successful psychoanalyst who has to put up with the seemingly endless string of trivial details his patients ramble on about. Yet his family provides a loving and steadfast foundation for his life that can even survive a problem like their son, Andrea, being accused of stealing a rare fossil in school. That foundation is profoundly rocked when Andrea dies in a scuba diving accident. Although the usual arrangements run smoothly, the emotional harm is profound. Giovanni begins to obsessively dwell on the missed chances he had with his son that might have saved his life, even blaming his patients. In addition , his wife is inconsulable and his daughter is becoming anti social in their loss. In the midst of this turmoil, a secret of their son's life is revealed that provides healing in a way they never anticipated."-Kenneth Crisholm (www.imdb.com)
"The Son's Room (Italian: La stanza del figlio) is a 2001 Italian film directed by Nanni Moretti. It depicts the psychological effects on a family and their life after the death of their son. It was filmed in and around Ancona, Italy."-Wikipedia
"Nói albínói is an Icelandic film by director Dagur Kári released in 2003. The film explores the life of teenage outsider Nói Kristmundsson (played by Tómas Lemarquis) in a remote fishing village in western Iceland. The film won multiple awards."-Wikipedia"Is he the village idiot or a genius in disguise? 17 year old Noi drifts through life on a remote fjord in the north of Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous mountains and buried under a shroud of snow. Noi dreams of escaping from this white-walled prison with Iris, a city girl who works in a local gas staion. But his clumsy attempts at escape spiral out of control and end in complete failure. Only a natural disaster will shatter Noi's universe and offer him a window into a better world."-www.imdb.com
"Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manny. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. Lola has 20 min to raise this amount and meet Manny. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run."-Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (www.imdb.com)"The story follows a woman who needs to obtain 100,000 Deutsche Mark in 20 minutes to save her boyfriend's life."-Wikipedia
"Although the movie depicts rural life in Colombia, it was actually filmed in Ecuador. The title is a double-entendre alluded to on the poster—a simultaneous reference to the Hail Mary and to what Maria carries in her into the United States."-Wikipedia"In a small village in Colombia, the pregnant seventeen years old Maria (Catalina Sandino Moreno) supports her family with her salary working in a floriculture. She is fired and with a total lack of perspective of finding a new job, she decides to accept the offer to work as a drug mule, flying to USA with sixty-two pellets of cocaine in her stomach. Once in New York, things do not happen as planned."-Stephen Bowen (www.imdb.com)
"Persepolis is a 2007 French animated film based on Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel of the same name. The film was written and directed by Satrapi with Vincent Paronnaud. The story follows a young girl as she comes of age against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution. The story ends with Marjane as a 22-year-old expatriate. The title is a reference to the historic city of Persepolis."-Wikipedia"In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own."-Kenneth Chisholm (www.imdb.com)
The Japanese culture portrayed in the film, Shall We Dansu, was a lot different from that of the culture in the life of an American. The people in the film were a lot more conserved and caring. People in America will give themselves up for basically anything. They seemed shy and content whereas in America, people will yell and scream at each other over nothing. It seems that Japanese culture and American culture differs greatly when it comes to every day life. It would be interesting to go to Japan and see it first hand."Shall We Dance? is a 1996 Japanese film. Its original Japanese title is Shall We Dansu? (Shall We ダンス??) which refers to the song, "Shall We Dance", played many times in the film. It may also refer to the earlier 1937 movie "Shall We Dance" starring Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire[citation needed]. It was directed by Masayuki Suo."-Wikipedia"Shohei Sugiyama has attained all that he has wanted in life. But he is still depressed and unhappy. One day, he gathers up the courage to sign up for dancing lessons. He hopes they will rid his depression and help him get his life back together."-Robert Krzanowski (www.imdb.com)
Please Vote For Me was a documentary style movie about 3 Chinese children who are chosen to run in the first democratic running for Class Monitor. Living in a communist country, none of the kids understand this. Since parents may only have 1 child, these kids are very spoiled with attention and the parents do everything possible to help the students win the race for Class Monitor. A few times the children decide to play dirty and make fun of the fellow students in order to make them drop out. Lots of hard ships for the children and they always over came them. Luo Lei's parents were both police officers so he grew up in an environment of strictness and some sort of dictatorship. That's how he treated his fellow students that were running. In the end, Luo Lei won after he bribed all the voters with gifts after his speech. The other two competitors congratulated him and cried. They had all grown up in a sort of dictatorship environment and at the very end, during the credits, Luo Lei was bossing everyone around.
"Please Vote for Me is a 2007 documentary film following the elections for class monitor in a 3rd grade class of eight year old children in the Evergreen Primary School in Wuhan, China. This was reported to be the first election of its type for a class monitor held in a school in China, as well as an interesting use of classic democratic voting principles and interpersonal dymanics."-Wikipedia"Wahun is a city in China the size of London where an experiment in democracy is conducted. At Evergreen Primary School, a grade 3 class learns what democracy is when an election for class monitor is being held. Three children are chosen by the teacher as candidates and they have a few days to campaign and convince their classmates to vote for them. The little candidates are seen at school and at home, where their parents do their best to make sure their child will win the election."-Marco van Hoof (www.imdb.com)
"Giovanni is a successful psychoanalyst who has to put up with the seemingly endless string of trivial details his patients ramble on about. Yet his family provides a loving and steadfast foundation for his life that can even survive a problem like their son, Andrea, being accused of stealing a rare fossil in school. That foundation is profoundly rocked when Andrea dies in a scuba diving accident. Although the usual arrangements run smoothly, the emotional harm is profound. Giovanni begins to obsessively dwell on the missed chances he had with his son that might have saved his life, even blaming his patients. In addition , his wife is inconsulable and his daughter is becoming anti social in their loss. In the midst of this turmoil, a secret of their son's life is revealed that provides healing in a way they never anticipated."
