Good Bye Lenin! and Don Juan de Marco

From a longer post on June 1st:

Saturday night I went to see “Good Bye Lenin!” with some friends. It’s about young East German man, Alex, who tends to his mother, an avid socialist who had a heart attack and fell into a coma just before the fall of the Berlin Wall. When she wakes up, the doctors fear her heart is too weak to withstand the shock of finding out how much the world has changed. So Alex goes about trying to restore the past in their little apartment, including refilling old socialist-era pickle jars that aren’t sold anymore and so on. The well-intentioned scam becomes harder to keep up, requiring more elaborate ruses. It’s often very funny and at other times quite touching. We all enjoyed it.

Sunday night my housemate Kathy and I watched “Don Juan de Marco” with Johnny Depp and Marlon Brando on some cable station I’m now getting. What a wonderful movie! Kathy hadn’t seen it before, and I hadn’t since it came out almost 10 years ago. Funny, enchanting and romantic.

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