6/23/2012

Clara's Summer 2004

Clara and her best friend Zoé head to summer camp for a summer of adventure and self-discovery. Both virgins, Zoé views camp as her chance to lose her virginity. After becoming romantically involved with Sébastien, a fellow camp member, Zoé learns that Sébastien cares far more about his friends than her and has sex with her just to impress them. After discovering this unsettling fact, Zoé turns to Clara for moral support and then, in a moment of confusion, professes her love for her. Clara, in the midst of recognizing her own sexuality, rejects Zoé's romantic advance but soon regrets the spurn, and begins to become attracted to the beautiful and out Sonia. ( by Anon )

Chloe

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Chloe (2009)

In the erotic thriller Chloe, Dr. Catherine Stewart (Julianne Moore, A Single Man) suspects that her husband David (Liam Neeson, Taken) is cheating on her. So she hires an escort named Chloe (Amanda Seyfried, Mamma Mia!) to offer herself to him, to see how he responds--but Catherine has a surprising response to what unfolds, and Chloe becomes drawn deeply into the doctor's life. Chloe is an atypical "Hollywood" film from Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter, Exotica), as it features big stars, a script Egoyan didn't write himself (it's by Erin Cressida Wilson, the screenwriter of Secretary), an editing rhythm notably less idiosyncratic than Egoyan films of old, and an ending that feels forced and unsatisfying. But Chloe explores classic Egoyan obsessions: voyeurism, jealousy, and betrayal. As the movie unfolds, the performances are full of rich details, capturing jagged emotional edges that make the somewhat-implausible plot compelling. Chloe doesn't have the uncanny psychological acuity of Egoyan's best films, but anyone who's enjoyed this unique director's earlier work will find much to enjoy. -- (by Bret Fetzer)

Rome and Juliet

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Rome and Juliet (2006)

Rome and Juliet has all the elements of a typical love story.It starts with a Girl and a Guy in a long and secure relationship. Girl meets Someone New. They immediately click and form a deep friendship. They discover that they like the same things. They even feel that they’ve known each other for a long time. They spend a lot of time together, and unknowingly, they fall for each other. Guy becomes wary and suspects Girl but his doubts remain unfounded. By this point, the sexual tension between Girl and Someone New is so obvious to everyone but themselves. One day, Someone New’s Old Flame returns. Girl gets consumed by jealousy over Old Flame and acts bitchy. A shouting match ensues between Girl and Someone New that climaxes in an accidental kiss. Ultimately, they realize that they are made for each other and they go for it. Boy catches them taking a shower together. Expectedly, there are complications along the way but in the end they get to live happily ever after.

Basically, this sums up the plot but Connie Macatuno’s movie debut is loads more than a cliché. And of course, Someone New is a woman.

Juliet (Andrea del Rosario) is a soft spoken, gentle natured, skirt-clad preschool teacher from the barrios. Her father suffered from stroke and she being the eldest assumed the role of being the provider for the family. She and her Councilor boyfriend Marc (Rafael Rosel) has been together for 3 years. She is the role model of her students and the envy of her co-teachers. See, she is your contemporary Maria Clara, except that she is not. She does things that will make the Catholic Church cringe – sex before marriage and The Pills (shudder). Meanwhile, Rome is the epitome of the modern Pinay – lives alone, runs her own business and after a fiancé running away from her 3 years ago, treats men as disposable commodities in her life. Both are looking for “The One”. Marc proposes to Juliet. Juliet finds Rome in asks her to plan her wedding. Discoveries, trouble, more discoveries and transformations follow. (by Eleyn Pumares)

Sappho

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Sappho, a newly wed American wife, with her husband on the Greek island Lesbos, goes through the pain of unrequited love to a young woman, very much like the namesake poet in ancient times. "And? What comes next?" "It's lost. We'll never know." "Perhaps we should decide for ourselves" Sappho is a provocative and passionate love story set in the 1920s - not to be watched with children or with parents. Millionaire's daughter Sappho Lovell arrives on the Greek island of Lesbos for her honeymoon with her artist husband Phil. There she meets Helene, the daughter of a Russian archaeologist, and she falls in love with her. As our three lovers live out a complex girl-boy-girl sexual triangle, Sappho also comes to believe that she is the reincarnation of the ancient poetess Sappho - that Sappho who first put the "lesbian" in Lesbos. However, our modern Sappho does realize how the ancient Sappho's legend ends... Inspired by the poems of Sappho (Written by Robert Crombie)