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The International Language of Love

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Don’t you just love crazy foreign romance films? They can really get your blood boiling and heart pumping with their sexy love scenes, beautiful actors with all their accents and breath taking landscapes. Most foreign films are no holds bar; they let all the dirty bits hang out and not always in the most tasteful way. If you want to get your sweetheart in the mood, then these are the films to see on Valentine’s Day.

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Barebreast Mountain

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  • Title: Imagine Me & You
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imagine-me-and-you-posterImagine Me & You is an interesting film.  It’s a love story without almost any heat or sex.  Instead it focuses on the romantic and emotional type of love.  Can a film like this work?  Well, kinda’.  Rated R because of the subject of lesbian romance, the film probably should have earned a PG rating as it’s good fun for the whole (liberal) family.

On the day of her wedding to Heck (Matthew Goode) Rachel (Piper Perabo) meets Luce (Lena Headey) the florist hired for her wedding.  Rachel feels an instant connection to Luce and something more.  Finding out later that Luce is gay makes Rachel weigh instant attraction and chemistry against her marriage, friendship and commitment to her husband.

Truthfully we’ve already seen the “you can’t help who you fall in love with” film done many times and just recently with a gay slant (Brokeback Mountain).  This film doesn’t really add anything new to the equation and the tone and pace of the movie is uneven as hell. 

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I Don’t Know; It’s a Mystery

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  • Title: Shakespeare in Love
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shakespeare-in-love-dvdJohn Madden gives us a new film version of Shakespeare by looking at the struggling playwright who has yet to become the great William Shakespeare.  The movie is centered around the love story between Will and Viola which will be his muse for writing “Romeo and Ethel the Pirate’s Daughter” er… I mean “Romeo and Juliet.”

Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) is a struggling playwright banished by his wife and child to London and tired of the constant attention and devotion garnered by renowned playwright Christopher Marlowe (Rupert Everett) which provides one of the films best running jokes.  With a little help from Marlowe and a the sight of his new muse the lady Viola De Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow who won the Oscar for Best Actress) Will begins to write what will become his great love story “Romeo and Juliet.”

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Tough Love

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  • Title: Lust, Caution
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lust-caution-posterNot totally unlike his last work, Ang Lee‘s Lust, Caution is a love story lead down the wrong path thanks to forlorn circumstances.  And although Lee’s movie about gay cowboy’s may have worked more thoroughly, there’s still a lot to this Mandarin-language film worth checking out.

Taking place in a World War II China when the Japanese were posing a threat, Lust, Caution focuses on a group of theater students who decide to stop putting on patriotic plays and start killing those Chinese sons a bitches who turned coat to the east, using a young woman (Wei Tang) to infiltrate one such traitor household.  They find out their task is much easier said than done after their target, Mr. Yee (Tony Leung), disappears across the country suddenly and without notice.  All the hard work and planning of six young nationalists goes down the drain.

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