Walking and Talking - Nicole Holofcener (1996)

Here we've got a cult movie!. I'm planning to see in a row the other three films by Nicole Holofcener (nearly Holofernes from the Bible), the writer and director. These are two friends from childhood (Keener and Heche) that go cheerful and sad through some incidents in the sphere of love. A kind of romantic comedy quite pleasant to see. I have liked it very much the song that sounds with the titles at the beginning, Billy Bragg's "She's Got A New Spell!".

The Book Of Other People - Edited by Zadie Smith

There are twenty three short stories in this book, included two comics. I think the authors are all of them well known, even if I had news of only four of them (Hornby, Clowes, Eggers and Zadie herself). The medium quality is good, even great. The general idea was to work up a character, so most of the titles are a name and a surname. No profit was intended for the writers; the aim was to help children and youngsters in the New York area with their writing skills.

Mother and Child - Rodrigo García (2009)

Paul Simon sang a mother and child reunion back in the seventies and this film is about mothers and children, not just one of each. Rodrigo is the son of García Marquez, the writer, and he knows his job: Filmmaker. Most of his films have women as main roles (I can't say why) and so happens in this one. Even the children are female. The story is about births and deaths and adopted children. Simple life. I liked when Annette Bening says: "I'm not a weirdo, I'm just a difficult person".

Dinamita - Liza Marklund

Publicada en Suecia en 1998 con gran éxito, esta novela no se ha conocido en España hasta este año; seguramente como consecuencia del éxito de Stieg Larsson. Es la primera de una saga de obras protagonizadas por la periodista de sucesos Annika Bengtzon y la verdad es que le he encontrado bastantes similitudes con el mencionado Larsson. Igual que aquél incide en el papel de la mujer y su situación de desventaja en la sociedad actual (¡incluso en Suecia!). Incide también en el funcionamiento de un periódico y, claro, en la trama policíaca más o menos habitual.

The Ghost Writer - Roman Polanski (2010)

This is a thriller with a literary touch, a subtle one. It's based in a novel by Robert Harris, an old friend of mine. Not that I have ever had dinner with him, but you can read my post about his novel "Lustrum" in this very blog. There's one general idea in this film that I am reluctant to agree with. I'm talking about the conspiracy theory (it's said that appeal to a conspiracy theory is to look for an easy solution in a complicated problem) that is the spine of the plot. Remarkable the use of new technologies: Mobile phones, PCs and even the GPS navigation system in a car. Apart from that the acting is good and the action lively.