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Lie with Me (2005)
Promiscuous but uncommunicative
Lie with Me is the story of a Leila (Lauren Smith), a woman on a quest for pleasure, who has found sex to be the main road to get there. The film begins with her masturbating to porno, and much of the rest of the 90 minutes are very well-made and realistic scenes of masturbation and sex, which apart from showing two young hot bodies, is also an excellent portrayal of desire and longing. It's easy to identify with Leila, haven't we all been captivated by someone at some point?... She is obsessed with David (Eric Balfour), a man with whom she feels a special chemistry. Could it be love? Well, it's certainly lots of hot sex and fantasies of having David watch her have sex with other men...
Lie-la and David's total lack of ability to communicate outside the bed or even about their fantasies leads these two alienated youths to come to the impossible conclusion of mutual unrequited love for an damaged soul who doesn't or can't love them back. This psychological struggle is truly interesting, and the cruelty and stupidity that result of this feeling of injustice define the rest of the film. The film-maker does a terrible job of resolving this tension, or hinting at how this misunderstanding might be overcome. Maybe one can read Tamara Berger's book to figure it out.
In conclusion, Lie with Me is a great film to watch in bed with a lover. It has excellent acting and sexy bodies. Interesting psychologically, this film surpasses soft-core porn, it is a study of the modern dilemma of alienation around promiscuity and love in cities and club scenes. But little depth or dialogue accompanies the ending, and many will regret watching it to the end. Hopefully before then, you've gotten more interested in that warm body lying with you, or at the very least with yourself.
El viaje de Said (2007)
Nice Claymation!
This 12 minute film is very compelling, well worth looking for. In Spanish and Arabic, it tells the dream-like story of a young boy who lives on the Morroccan coast whose father has probably gone missing in trying to cross the Mediterranean to Spain in a "patera".
Said himself, as the title suggests, has a journey of sorts, and runs into all sorts of fascinating characters, who tell him about the dangers that this journey may entail.
While the claymation is quite jumpy and not expertly done, I found the expressiveness of the characters faces to be quite good and enjoyed the animation.
Lavorare con lentezza (2004)
One of the best modern feature length creative commons films
In a working-class district on the outskirts of 1970's Bologna, Sgualo and Pelo hang out at the local café, allergic to gainful employment. They don't mind taking on a shady job for local hood Marangon, but they're convinced there's little future whichever way they turn. Trying to escape from the drudgery of manual labor, they discover Radio Alice, a pirate station (based on a true story) and get so inspired that they visit the station and dive into the radical world of class struggle, free love, and psychedelia. Meanwhile, a police officer ordered to spy on the anarchists from his radio can't help but fall in love with Alice. Best of all, this film can be downloaded for free, legally, from archive.org. Just search for "Lavorare con lentezza."