have you ever wanted to marry a movie?

I am head over heels in lusty love with Slumdog Millionaire. see it. you must. Granted it wouldn't have taken much to persuade me to dedicate a couple hours to this one. It's got what I need in a potential "favourite movie": gritty realness, a totally plausible yet seemingly unrealistic scenario and subtitles. I don't always require subtitles (well not if it's in english or french),but I crave real world cultures and experiences. Slumdog Millionaire is amazing . The story line is incredibly written, the cast is genuinely endearing and there is alwaaaaays something going on at any point of the film.

I am definetly a "foreign" film addict. I hardly watch mainstream movies with much devotion, and when the "foreign" films become mainstream I am happy for the film but secretly wish the world knew that they're uninformed and limiting themselves to mainstream recycling. It shouldn't take an Oscar nomination to watch a film they may need to read in order to enjoy. :)

Yes Slumdog is amazing . But I'm not the type to jump onto the bandwagons at the drop of gen. pop. admiration.

Cidade Dos Homens or City of Men (the sequel to City of God) is my favourite "foreign" film. I use "" around the word foreign because I'm not so convinced that these films are anymore or less foreign to me than a movie like Finding Nemo. I'd say an orphaned talking fish is pretty foreign in my scheme of things.

I have watched City of Men and City of God more times than I can count, and I'm the type to watch a movie only once, twice if I'm pretending that I've never seen it before, while I'm in the company of a companion (yes I do that). It also helps that my ONLY celebrity crush is in this film, a Brasilian celeb who, last I heard, can't speak English but is working on it and has no idea that I would sponsor him PRONTO/ASAP/tout de suite. His name is Jonathan Haagensen and he's delicious and incredibly talented. I scoured the city of Toronto looking for how and where I could get the TV series continuation of City of God, also named Cidade dos Homens. My searched took me to Bay Street Video where I was able to rent all 4 seasons:) blissssss

Being francophone, I can't help but name french films as my pleasure of choice. Top 3 would have to be: Amélie, Rue Casse-Nègres and La Haine
Amélie has just enough quirkiness for me
Rue Casse-Nègres is a 'near and dear' since part of my heritage is Martiniquais and my maman introduced it to me when I was a kiddie.
La Haine left me speechless.

Honourable mentions go to Malena (italian), Curse of the Golden Flower (chinese) and Pan`s Labyrinth (spanish)

enjoy