My Netflix queue has been dragging a little lately but I’ve got some comedies for you this week.
The first movie is just about the funniest foreign comedy I have seen for a long time. The friendship between the two characters and all its odd complexities was so endearing. Aaron and I both love this movie to bits.
The second movie was a surprise to both of us and turned out to be quite funny. I rented it because of Judd Nelson and the beloved role as John Bender the criminal in the Breakfast Club. Also, this was the director’s student film which is pretty amazing.
So with that, check these flicks out:
Elling
2001
Director: Petter Næss
89 min.
This feel-good drama is about a pair of misfits trying to get along with each other and the outside world. Elling
is a neurotic, shy would-be writer who still lives with his mother.
That is at least until she dies, and poor Elling is cast of the house
by the health department and sent to state institution. While Elling
has no experience with the outside world — though he has a very active
interior world — his roommate Kjell Bjarne is a sex-obsessed hulk mass
of a man raring to get out. Initially, these two wildly different guys
get along famously. Only when they move into public housing together do
cracks develop in their relationship.
Fandango
1985
Director: Kevin Reynolds
90 min.
Five college roommates on a last
“fandango” set out on a trip before they separately face the harsh realities of an
unpredictable future. It is 1971, and the Vietnam War has not yet
ended. Gardner Barnes has extended his college years by six semesters in an attempt to stave off the rapidly approaching future, Kenneth has just canceled his wedding in a drunken look at reality, Lester loves alcohol and tags along with the group just to have a good time, Dorman is devoted to existentialism and flights of poetic fancy, and Phil
is barely a member of the group because he is consorting with the
enemy: he is a member of ROTC. This unlikely mismatch cavorts through
several classic college pranks. As their high jinks
continue, it becomes apparent that their real desire is not to live a
wild life for its own sake, but to postpone the moment when they will
have to leave school and its lifestyle behind them.
* reviews by allmovie.com