Briget Jones's Diary

Book/ Film: Briget Jones's Diary
Genre: Comedy - Romance
Author/ Director: Sharon Mcguire
Characters/ Actors: Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth


Review:
Briget Jones's Diary is a Bitish film from 2001, based on the novel from the same name written by Heles Fielding. In this film, the star, Briget Jones (Renée Zellweger), is a 30 year old woman who works in a publishing company in London and has realized that time is passing by and she is still single and worried about her weight. her family tries that she get's emocionally involved with a pretender, Mr. Darcy (Colin Firth), a barrister, son of a friend of her parents. From the very beggining Briget thinks that is a very arrogant and offensive person. and he thinks that Briget is some kind of dorky.
On New Year's Day she decides to leave the bad habit behind, lose weight and find her own Mr. Right.
Briget Jones and Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant), his boss with who she has been fantasizing for a long time, starts to send masseges to her, and having dates to know each other better... But the reality is that hi is a womanizer who doesn't want anything serious with her. At the same time she find out that Daniel and Mark Darcy have a history together and as result of it they hate each other.
When she finally realizes that Mark is a good person with good intentions and Daniel isn't as much as she needs, she will be on a real crossroads.

I really like this film because it's funny and dinamic and at the same time it's sweet and romantic. I think that Renée is extrordinary in her role and also love Hugh Grant, even playing the role of the bad guy.

Student Name: Carolina Delgado
Class: 5ºH

August Rush

Book/ Film: August Rush
Genre: Drama

Author/ Director: Kirsten Sheridan

Characters/ Actors: Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Robin Williams, Terrence Howard, William Sadler

Review:
Everythig starts when Lila Novacek (Keri Russell), a young brilliant cellist, meets a rock musician called Louis (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) at a party; they spend a night together. However Lila’s father forces them apart. Lila realizad that she is pregnant and try to contact whith Louis but she can’t; at the same time Louis try to find her.
One night Lila has an accident and is taken to a hospital where his father lies to her telling that her baby died, and the boy is given for adoption.
After that the movie tells the story of a realy special boy of 11 years called Evan Taylor (Freddie Highmore) who hears music everywhere he goes. He lives in an orphanage but he knows that his parents are alive, but maybe they don’t even know about his existence, and is determinated to find them; he is quit sure that the music will make them be together again. After his scape from the orphanage he goes to New York, where his search begins. At the same time Lila discovers that her son is alive and starts to look for him by herself.

In my opinion this is a really beautiful film that show us that faith and perseverance can make great things in our lifes. It’s a sweet story about love, faith, passion and specialy about music.

Here you are two quotes that I like from this film:
I believe in music the way that some people believe in fairy tales…
Music is all around you, all you have to do is listen…

Student name: Carolina Delgado

Class: 5º H

Slumdog Millionaire

Book/ Film: Slumdog milonaire
Genre: Drama, Romance
Author/ Director: Danny Boyle (director)
Characters/ Actors: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Kaan

Review:
Slumdog millionaire is based on the novel “Q and A” of Vikas Swarup and is directed by Danny Boyle. Is the story of Jamal Malik (Dev Patel), a kid from the streets who lives in India and decides to participate on the India’s version of “Who wants to be a millionaire?”. Everyone thinks that because of his condition he would never win the pot, but when they realizad that the boy is realy good answering the questions, they alert to the police thinking that he must be cheating. He is arrested and the police interrogates him; Jamal bigins to explain how he could answer every question reminding some moment of his hard life; he also tells them that he decided to appeared on the show because he wants to find Latika (Freida Pinto), an old friend from the childhood.

I have to say that I never felt so atracted to see this movie until it won those eight Awards of the Academy; then I knew that I HAVE to see it. When I finally saw the movie I liked it so much because it’s a realy original love story full of humor, sensibility, thriller, romance and good music.

Student name: Carolina Delgado
Class: 5º H