Movie Review: The Lunchbox
On an overcrowded public bus in India, a man on the work commute gets felt up by a smiley, wrinkly stranger; no one notices. Across town, another man stares up at a ceiling fan, waiting to die.
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On an overcrowded public bus in India, a man on the work commute gets felt up by a smiley, wrinkly stranger; no one notices. Across town, another man stares up at a ceiling fan, waiting to die.
A fascinating dive into the realm of artistic impossibility and technological innovation, “Tim’s Vermeer” is a voracious, hands-on examination of the works of 17th century painter Johannes Vermeer.
Ambitious to a fault, “Winter’s Tale” (based on the eponymous book by Mark Helprin) preaches humanism and universal connectivity, but delivers a plot that is often clunky, prematurely dramatic and unconvincing in the magical world it attempts to create. The characters, seemingly devoid of individual autonomy, act almost as puppets of the much-heralded force of destiny.
Laughably ridiculous and rambunctious, “That Awkward Moment” overflows with college-suited humor erring on the side of immaturity. The moment-by-moment hilarity of watching three 20-somethings try to play the balancing act of “bros before hoes” is a sufficiently good time—it’s easy to laugh along with the characters.
Mumbai is the unique birthplace of a daily lunch delivery system that delivers freshly cooked meals from housewives to their working spouses. In the film “The Lunchbox,” a mishap lands one such lunchbox in the hands of the wrong client. Out of this accident develops an unlikely, but rewarding relationship.
Asghar Farhadi’s (“A Separation”) French drama “The Past” explores the erosive impact of divorce and death on a family already broken by multiple marriages. Members of the disjointed mishap of a family try removing themselves from a cataclysm of a scandal—the infidelity of husband and father Samir (Tahar Rahim, “A Prophet”) and the attempted suicide of his wife Céline (Aleksandra Klebanska, “Happiness Never Comes Alone”).
Walt Disney Picture’s newest animated feature “Frozen” screens like a frenzied, albeit enjoyable run-on sentence with plenty of surprising twists and turns throughout the movie.
For all students spending Thanksgiving in D.C., there’s plenty to do on and off campus this holiday season. Here are some of our ideas from the Scene:
Equal parts nostalgia and comedy, Alexander Payne’s (“The Descendants”) “Nebraska” is a black-and-white drama on the small-town dynamics of family and community. The pieces are at once familiar, but intriguing: the idea of windfall gains, a father-son road trip and an old man crazy enough to believe he’s won $1 million in a sweepstakes he never entered.
The AU Chamber Singers—under the direction of conductor and College of Arts and Sciences Professor Daniel Abraham—will tackle a few big and beautiful questions in their concert program “Parallel Universes: Scientific Discovery and Musical Thought” on Nov. 16 and 17.