Over the weekend, I watched 3 critically acclaimed films:
- Danny Boyle’s ‘Trainspotting’, and
- Multi Oscar nominated ‘Very Long Engagement’
- David Cohen’s multi oscar winning Fargo

Very Long Engagement - From the director of Amelie - the lesser said about ‘Very long… ‘ the better - it may have gorgeous cinematography, wonderful production values and great direction - but it was damn boring! I just couldn’t sit through it - it was dull, uninteresting and lacked any real ’story’. It was a story of a young handicapped woman on a determined search of her lost lover during WWI. An okay sort of story, but the script just didn’t have any hooks to pull you in - it has characters who just walk into the story and disappear. Maybe Amelie was an one hit wonder for this French director.

** (2/5)

Trainspotting - I loved the idea of Danny’s “28 day’s later”, and I was sorely disappointed by his debut film - superhit ‘Trainspotting”. Another boring story of 4 junkies and their pathetic existence. The only saving grace was Evan McGregor’s acting - which was wonderful. I donno whats in this movie which was so darn good that it was Britains biggest hit.

** (2/5)

Fargo - It came out in 1996, since then there have been so many TV shows with the same story. A cash strapped husband planning his rich wife’s kidnapping to milk money out of her millionare father, and things go terribly wrong…blah blah… it was so jaded. Even an ordinary episode of Law & order or CSI:Miami is on the same lines. And the tag “Based on a True Story” is bogus - and it ticked me off. But the saving grace, as with all the films above, is fantastic acting. William Macy, Steve Buscemi and Frances McDormand were just fantastic!

*** (3/5)