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12.07.07

Vodka Lemon chairs
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We finished watching Vodka Lemon tonight. I didn't mean to watch all the way to the end, but it's Friday night and we forgot about everything else for a while. About the only movies I can stand to watch are foreign, non-English movies. I'm very pro-American but the shallow stupidity of almost all American movies drives me away. I sometimes make an effort to sit down and watch one just to be sociable, but usually can't take it for long. Whenever there is evidence that the writers and producers come from very narrow, constricted backgrounds, ...
12.06.07

Vodka Lemon
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Tonight we started watching Vodka Lemon. I'll definitely have to watch it twice to figure out how all the scenes tie together. I had somehow not thought of Armenia as a cold, wintry place, but there are lots of good scenes of cold and snow. The characters are obviously living in very poorly heated houses. The concept is understood in a way that southern Californian filmmakers would never quite get. So far not much Russian has been spoken, which is not making this one nearly as good for language-learning as was Mimino. I presume most of ...

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