Call Me by Your Name (2017)

I haven't read André Aciman's novel of the same name, and still I was excited to see Call Me by Your Name because it's directed by an Italian filmmaker, Luca Guadagnino, and basically everyone praised it, but it was a little disappointing. 

Northen Italy, Summer 1983. Seventeen-year-old Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet) is spending his days in his family's villa transcribing and playing classical music and reading. Then Oliver (Armie Hammer) arrives, an American graduate who has come to help Elio's father (Michael Stuhlbarg) with archaeological research and Elio soon develops a crush on him.

Groundhog Day (1993)

I think I was 10 when I saw Groundhog Day for the first time. I remember it was a snowy day, during the holidays if I'm not wrong. I did, however, see only the last 20 minutes or so. I was so charmed by it that I immediately took the guide magazine and looked for the movie's title. I wrote it down so to remember it the next time I'd see it was on TV. And I did remember. In fact, I watched it every single time it until I didn't anymore. Having realised that I haven't seen it in years, I decided to rewatch for the actual Groundhog Day, and I still loved it.

Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is a cynical and misanthropic weatherman who is sent, for the fourth year in a row, to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities. Once there, he makes no effort to hide his frustration to his cameraman Larry (Chris Elliott) and producer Rita (Andie MacDowell). Doing this "stupid" coverage will be the least of his problems though as the following day he wakes up to discover that it's Groundhog Day again, and again, and again. 

Thursday Movie Picks: Story Within a Story

In July (2000)

Is there something that sounds weirder that German romantic comedy? I mean, that sounds like the greatest oxymoron ever, doesn't it? And yet such movies do exist. In July (German: Im Juli.) is one of them and a pretty good one too. 

Daniel (Moritz Bleibtreu) is a young teacher who is planning to stay in Hamburg for the summer. On his way home, he meets Juli (Christiane Paul), a street vendor who has fallen in love with him at first sight and convinces him to buy a Sun ring. Said ring is supposed to bring him good luck and a woman wearing the sun symbol will be his true love. That's supposed to be Juli, of course, but he accidentally meets Melek (İdil Üner), a young Turkish woman, and mistakes her for his true love. Melek is going in Istanbul though, so Daniel decides to go there to meet her. Along the way, he unexpectedly meets Juli and they embark on quite an adventure.