omcgowan

Is there a movie that's as quiet as this yet makes you groan with empathy. we've all had those occasions when and where nothing goes right. to watch everything goes wrong for our two "heroes" while we are dry when they are soaked, when they are desperate for food and wine and we are watching filled with food and wine, when the perfect family queer haunts the heroes, it's like reading of a recent trek across Afghanistan in winter or the right-titled 'worst journey in the world. but the glory of the movie is the form of humor. see it and groan. i wish there was a way to get this movie out of cult status and into every college town in the u.s. and Canada.

A sophisticated exposition of evil which shows how Manichean the world really is. 3 pickpockets show us how that work is done -- and their skill is entertaining and informative. you'll learn how to protect yourself on the Metro in Paris, Rome and NY, for sure, for sure. but they get totally out of their depth into a world of violence, sex slavery and diamond-smuggling -- which is casually wrapped around daily life in Paris. and an ending that is just the start of something else. there's a scene where the "angolanos" are speaking Portuguese and there are no sub-titles but it was small talk before getting down to business anyway. i'm exceptionally unschooled in "Film" but I did notice how gorgeous the camera-work is. there's one moment when the "heroine" is wrapped in a gauze curtain with a gray wall behind her that is typical of the care taken with scenes and color. I can see how a minority would love this movie but we're a lucky few.