HansfromGotland Reviews

What Girls Learn (2001 TV Movie)

Interesting story perhaps, but BAD movie

[3/10 · 23 December 2006]

The comments about this movie seems to focus on the fact that it's based on a true story. What has that got to do with the quality of the movie? Nothing.

The acting is actually good, at least the children are great, but the directing and the script is awful. Everything moves at a near-sleep-pace, and the dialogue is throughout without interesting language and lines.

And what about the psychology between the mother and the children. She forces them to move in with a man they've never met, to a house neither she or the children has seen? Further on, when she gets sick, she claims that she all the time are forced to lie to the children, for their own good. OK it's the 80's but still.

All and all, a very unsatisfactory movie.

Green Card (1990)

RomCom at it's best

[10/10 · 4 August 2006]

A good Rom-Com should include misunderstandings and a clash between a man and a woman, who comes from different backgrounds. They differ in class, wealth, religion etc etc. In this particular movie they differ in nationality. But they do not just simply represent the American and the French, they are different as individuals as well. She has high moral standards while he is careless and sloppy. And as often, she is serious at the brink of being boring, while he is spontaneous and funny.

The clash between these two persons is lovely to watch. Without revealing anything I will just cite two things:

"The elephants has been restless again"

And the title of the photo: "The Handyman"!

Isn't it the small thing that makes the differens between the average and the original movie. Georges letters from Africa, describing mostly the restless elephants, keeping him from sleeping, are just brilliant!