Sunday, April 30, 2017

[Machu Picchu]: Movies I watched on flights

I spent a lot of time on flights. To Paris, NJ, to detroit, to Lima, to Cusco, to Lima, to Atlanta, to NJ, to Paris and back.

Sometimes I binge on movies. Like on the return flight.

Here's what I saw.

1) Cow Factory - a very good documentary made in France. Couldn't find it anywhere online - the DVD or otherwise.
2) Gold - Matthew McConaughey movie about finding gold in Indonesia.
3) Camino a La Paz - Roderigo de la Sarna (he acted in Motorcycle diaries). I really liked this movie. Starts in Argentina, ends in Bolivia. A Muslim man wants to go to Mecca. Sebastian unexpectedly becomes his driver. A great road movie. Very different.
4) Perfetti Sconoscuitti - An Italian movie where 7 friends come up with a game where they have to share all their text messages, emails, calls, Whatsapp messages during a long dinner.
5) Vida Sexual de la Plantas - An intense Chilean movie - literally called sex life of plants. But it deals with conflicting, confusion human emotions when a woman's boyfriend falls while climbing a rock and suffers brain damage. Her desire for him disappears but the need to have a child remains.
6) Lost City of Z - I desperately wanted to see this movie after reading about it in New Yorker. About an explorer (true story) in the Amazon jungles.
7) Passengers - I didn't like it so much, despite being a space movie and I could see some space, stars and stuff. 

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