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Tendres Cousines

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Léo Legrand!

14 year old actor Léo Legrand from France :)

Dakota Fanning!

Is it just me or is she super hot in a somewhat mysterious way?

The Flight of the Red Balloon

Inspired by Albert Lamorisse’s classic 1956 Academy Award Winning short, Flight of the Red Balloon is the latest masterwork from director Hou Hsiao Hsien. Expanding on the key elements of Lamorisse’s short -- a young boy, a red balloon and Paris -- Hou weaves the tale of a boy, Simon dealing with the increased fragility of his loving yet preoccupied mother, Suzanne. When a Taiwanese film student, Song, is hired to help care for Simon, a unique extended family is formed -- utterly dependent on each other yet lost in separate dreams mirrored by a delicate, shiny red balloon.

True Blood

I adore the intro of True Blood. It fulfils pretty much every cliché we Germans have about the American South and I love the song while I’m not into such stuff normally ^.^ I watched only two episodes so far but it seems to be pretty interesting. I wonder how many people realise that the vampires are actually a metaphor for any minority who had to fight for its rights in American history – like black people or gays.

Hänsel & Gretel

Tommy Wirkola is done with Nazi-zombies. At least for the time being. Even though his last movie, Dead Snow, was a hit with most fans, the young filmmaker has decided to go for a less absurd subject for his next film – Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters!

Wirkola is prepping a film that will focus on how things worked out for the famous siblings fifteen years after that whole bit of nasty witch trying to eat them stuff. He is currently hard at work on an outline for the producers at the Paramount-based Gary Sanchez Productions. Even at this super-early stage Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters is being groomed as a potential franchise and is said to have a Shaun of the Dead and Evil Dead 2 type vibe. (via Dead Central)

Wild Things

The Cement Garden

“Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it’s okay to be a boy; for girls it’s like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading.”

"I did not kill my father," this slim novel begins, "but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way." Soon the mother is dead as well, and four children are left to fend for themselves in a secluded house in a dying part of the city.

There’s Julie, the eldest, a ripe & willful beauty who’s almost a woman; there’s Jack, the narrator, a boy bewildered by his growing body & appetites; there’s Sue, bookish & ever-observant; and then there’s Tom, the baby of the family, who actually seems to get younger, regressing as the days go by. These four form an uneasy family, slowly learning to be self-sufficient in this strangely apocalyptic setting.

But an intruder in the form of Julie’s new boyfriend threatens their fragile stasis by asking too many questions. How long have the four of them been alone? And just what is buried under the crumbling pile of cement in the basement?

I read The Cement Garden when I was 14 and did a summer job in a small bookstore where I hardly had anything to do than reading books. It was an intense experience back then and you should give it a try if you’re into this kind of dark “social study” novels. There is also a film, in case you’re too lazy to read ;p And, yes, it has a lot to perv over… including girls looking like cute boys, cute boys dressing as girls, male and female nudity, masturbation scenes and Incest.