| Movies: A Rather Less Romantic Trip Round Paris | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Staff writer This week we'll take a look at several movies set to be released in the kingdom over the coming weeks: From Paris With Love, How to Be, Confucius ('Kong Zi'), and Everbody's Fine.
James Reese (Jonathon Rhys-Meyers), a personal aide to the US ambassador in France, enjoys an enviable life in Paris and a beautiful French girlfriend, but his real passion is for his 'side' job as a low-level operative for the CIA. All Reese really longs for is to become a bona fide agent and to see some real action. So when he's offered his first senior-level assignment, he can't believe his luck – until he meets his partner to be, special agent Charlie Wax (John Travolta). Wax, a wisecracking, trigger-happy, loose cannon, who has been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack, leads Reese on a white-knuckle shooting spree through the Parisian underworld that has the ambitious rookie praying to return to his desk job. But when Reese discovers he's also a target of the same crime ring they're out to bust, he suddenly realizes there's no turning back ... and that Wax might actually be his only hope of making through the next 48 hours alive. - Opens February 4.
Officially an adult, but locked into a perpetual phase of arrested development, Art (Robert Pattinson), an aimless 20-something, attempts to make sense of his go-nowhere life after being dumped by his girlfriend and forced to move back home with his parents. Art may still be far from mid-life, but no one can deny that he's having a crisis. When his attempts at establishing himself as a sensitive singer/songwriter fail, Art dips into his inheritance money in order to experiment with a variety of new-age therapies and hire Dr Ellington (Powell Jones), an eccentric self-help guru. Gradually, Art begins to make sense of the dysfunctional relationship he shares with his frustrated parents, and understand the unique role he plays in his small but close-knit social circle. - Opens February 4.
Lawrence Talbot (Benicio Del Toro), a haunted nobleman, is lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with Sir John Talbot (Anthony Hopkins), his estranged father, Talbot sets out to find his brother ... and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself. Talbot's childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother's fianc้e, Gwen Conliffe (Emily Blunt), tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search. He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline (Hugo Weaving) has come to investigate. - Opens February 11.
Directed by Kirk Jones (Waking Ned Devine), Everybody's Fine is actually a remake of Giuseppe Tornatore's Stanno Tutti Bene. Widower Frank (Robert De Niro) embarks on an impromptu road trip in a bid to reconnect with each of his grown up children only to discover that their lives are far from 'picture perfect'. The themes of Everybody's Fine are family, focusing on the physical and emotional distances Frank travels to try and bring the members back together. - Opens February 11.
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Friday, February 5, 2010
Movies: A Rather Less Romantic Trip Round Paris
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