The Lunchbox

[asakiyume]

A thing on Twitter reminded me that I wanted to say how much fun the movie The Lunchbox is. Apparently I just really, really love epistolary stories? This one unfolded like a flower: there is nothing unexpected about how a flower unfolds, but you sure do enjoy watching it. And it wasn't just the main characters, the secondary characters were excellent as well: Saajan's young disciple Shaikh and Ila's heard-but-not-seen Auntie. And every small detail--a window closed so Saajan can't look in, which becomes, later, a window from which a child waves at him--is excellent.

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Intersting Trailer

[docdad2.livejournal.com]

I hope the movie comes to our town - or (sigh) NetFlix.

Re: Intersting Trailer

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It is on netflix--that's how I saw it!

Re: Intersting Trailer

[wuweibaby.livejournal.com]

Oh good!


Boo. It says unavailable for streaming :(

Re: Intersting Trailer

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I ended up going back to DVD netflix because *nothing* I wanted to see was ever available streaming. They have a service that's just two disks a month that isn't too pricey.

I think it's also available to view through Youtube, though probably not egally-lay

[duccio.livejournal.com]

Lunchbox looks really good. I'll try and see it.

Have you seen Cartas del parque (Letters from the park) a Cuban film from 1989? It's a small part from the novel Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez. I think you would like this epistolary story very, very much.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'm just reading Love in the Time of Cholera now! I'll definitely look for Cartas del parque.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

I want to see this!!!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It's a really lovely film :-)