Closing Night at Cinema du Parc
August 3, 2006Tonight was Cinema du Parc’s closing night. To celebrate CDP’s five years in business and to enjoy one last week of repertory movies, Desiree and I have seen six movies at the CDP since last Friday:
- Amores perros (Love’s a Bitch or Loves Dogs)
- Trainspotting
- La Mala educación (The Bad Education)
- Girl With a Pearl Earring
- Lost in Translation
- Clean
Tonight we had also wanted to see Eraserhead, their last show of the evening (and forever), but unfortunately, by the time we got there, it was sold out.
Despite this last disappointment, I was mostly pleased with the movies that we did get to see. Of these, I particularly enjoyed Amores Perros and Girl With a Pearl Earring, but was unimpressed with Lost in Translation. Coincidentally, Scarlett Johannson played in both Girl With a Pearl Earring and Lost in Translation. Though it had its humorous moments, Lost in Translation had a dull and mostly pointless story in which Bill Murray and Scarlett Johannson were a very unlikely and mismatched pair. Girl With a Pearl Earring was a much more interesting film for which Johannson was a perfect fit.
