Since it's the least I could do to have fun (blame saturday classes!) and because it's Father's day :) we decided to catch a movie. I right away suggested to watch Madagascar 3 but of course my sister insisted on Kimmy Dora 2 HAHAHA! We were debating about how she has been like that ever since.. like when there's a good movie then she decides to want to watch a local movie instead.. there's this one time she chose this local movie over Transformers 2. ugh! I forgot what happened with that, but I think we ended up fighting and not watching any movie at all. Don't get me wrong, it is not that I hate local movies but sometimes those films are either predictable, corny or predictable haha. Sooooo, we ended up watching a French movie instead! Shang's cineplex offered free admission to a French Film Fest.. and since it has been there for quite a while now we decided to might as well try it, although we have no idea what movie genre we're bout to watch. We thought it was cool because 1. it is free and 2. it's french! and interesting.
The title of the movie was "Roses On Credit (Roses à crédit)" and it has rated pg scenes.. so awkward to be seeing that movie with all the seduction and tense visuals. Anyway the main setting of the film was in the post-World War II era of middle-class France. Roses on Credit is the story of a newly-wed couple Marjoline, a beautician, and Daniel, who is attempting to create new strains of roses as they try to live a united life with very different goals, Marjoline gets involve in massive debts, and the couple's relationship begins to fall apart.
I felt sleepy during the film.. and that's not me, I always seem focus when I watch a movie inside a theater. Perhaps the sleepiness was solely to the fact that the movie is in French and I'm lazy to read subtitles, but I got the main plot nevertheless. I can't say it's worth every cent since we didn't pay anything, but I can say it's worth the time. Films like this which travels back to one of the rarely cited eras of film is something nice once in a while :)
