Cinecity Film Festival - half way through

So I watched four movies already - half of the movies I got the tickets for. And four evenings in a row spent in the cinema. Old style (it is actually 100 years old!), lovely, cosy Duke of York's Picturehouse. With a cup of green tea instead of popcorn (although you can get that too), and with a slice of delicious carrot cake on one occasion :)

I am happy to say that so far the movies I picked were really good - again, my movie-maniac intuition worked well ;) The one I liked the most, so far, was French "Of Gods and Men", which actually won Grand Prix on this year's Cannes Film Festival. Very quiet (but not boring!), very moving (but not sentimental or cheap), very real and simple in its form, but yet beautiful.

You can read a short review revealing a bit of the story here.


For the record, the other movies I saw so far were:
- "The King's Speech" - with marvellous Colin Firth as king George VI in pre-war Britain
- "Never Let Me Go" - beautiful and immensely tragic story of three young friends
- "Fleurs du Mal" - movie created in memory of the dramatic protests which arise after the presidential election in Iran in June 2009 - matters really close to my heart