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The English Patient (1996)
A perfect movie...
Even after all these years, this remain "a perfect movie" for me. I still remember sitting for a long time in the theater after it was over, stunned by the experience, overcome by emotion. I own the DVD (of course!) is see at least once a year. It's incomparable and I cannot add much to has already been written about its excellence and beauty. So glad others love it as much as I do! A note: the author of the book on which it's based - Michael Ondatje - was enchanted with the film and is quoted as saying he wished he had thought of some of the lovely scenes written purely for the movie...the way Kip "invites" Hana to his side with a trail of small candles, and the way he arranges for Hana to view the frescoes in the ruined medieval church.
Madre Luna (2007)
Disappointing so far
This telenovela started very well and I, among others, had great expectations because of the reputation of the author and the quality of his other work. Madre Luna, however, is a failure in my opinion and not what we have come to expect from J.Jimenez.
It is EXTREMELY violent, with scenes of torture, female abuse, attempted rapes and so on; there are almost as many villains as there are decent characters, and these seem to own the limelight for the most part. I am not a sadist and find it hard to see so much meaness and cruelty episode after episode without the balance of goodness and justice to offset it at least some of the time. In this case, a "happy ending" won't compensate for having had to put up with so much nastiness.
What a waste of good actors and actresses!