Look Both Ways is easier to summarize than it is to follow when watching.  After seeing it for the first time you may have an impulse to watch it again because you know you missed a lot and because there are things you’d like to try to figure out.  If you liked Magnolia you will like this film.  If “thought provoking” is not a good thing to say about a film and if you prefer simple entertainment, then you should pass on this one.  The gist of it is summed up well in one of its lines: “Every one has to find a way to face his own death.”  Almost everyone in the film is dealing with death, either in thought or in reality.
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I thought about not reviewing My First Mister.  I think I was a little embarrassed about liking it.  The absolute worst thing I can say about a movie is that it’s “about as good as a soap opera.”  Indeed, this film is a little soap operaish–just a little.  It is indeed a “tear jerker”–to get that out as well.  Now that I have disclaimed myself, let me tell you why I found it a worthwhile and thoughtful tale.
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One of my first puzzles on beginning Seducing Dr. Lewis was its location. Set in a small coastal fishing village, the place looked much like Battle Harbour, Labrador, where I have stayed and roamed with my cameras.  The treeless tundra-like terrain and starkness of the tiny surrounding islands was remarkably similar.  When the film was over, I searched the credits eagerly for the location.  Harrington Harbour, Quebec.  Close!  Harrington Harbour is just below the Quebec/Labrador border and therefore down the coast from Battle Harbour.  Now, of course, I want to visit Harrington Harbour.  I’m reading up on in already.  But I’ve digressed before even getting started.
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If Kristin Scott Thomas (from “The English Patient”) doesn’t have the most expressive face in the motion picture world, who does?  With no words spoken you can follow and feel her thoughts, her pain, her sarcasm, her weariness, everything.
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I found “Ladies in Lavender” a charming and fascinating story. Imagine two older women, sisters, living in a small remote 1930’s Cornish village in a lovely house overlooking the sea.  One night comes a violent storm, not all that unusual for such a setting.  But next morning the sisters discover a washed up body on their little beach.  Next they discover that the young man is still alive.  They get help, take him in, and begin to tend to him.
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