Some nice movies

These are the movies I saw the past month and enjoyed at least a bit (no spoilers, I swear!):

Nine - Pretty good singing and dancing, and I loved the main character, a fun, charming, crazy artist with no inspiration (Daniel Day-Lewis as Guido Contini). But it's a musical and you have to be into it to enjoy it. From the director of Chicago, it shares some similarities with the former film, like the sexy acts, the celebs (all beautiful high scale actresses) and the role music and dance plays in the story. Good, but not great. Surprisingly, Fergie's performance was the best one in my opinion among a great female cast: including Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard, Kate Hudson, Penélope Cruz, Judy Dench and even Sofia Loren.

The Last Station - A film about Leo Tolstoy's last years and his marital struggle caused by conflictive points of view - while the writer works in the Tolstoyan Movement and thinkis about the Russian people, his wife, Sofya Andreevna, feels he is not keeping in mind that he also has a family to look after. I thought this would be an historic film showing a lot of the Russian context by that time, but it isn't. It's actually a really interesting film, but more about love than anything else. Instead of being a portrait of Russia in the early 1900s and Tolstoy's role in it, it's really a film about relationships that shows Tolstoy not as a leader, but as a husband. and a human being. It's beautiful, and Sofya Andreevna's character is so strong it's impossible not being sympathetic with her. And it's played by Helen Mirren, always perfect.

Avatar - Not a big fan of sci-fi, but I thought this was a nice one. Nice, but not spectacular as so many people are saying. I enjoyed all the aesthetics, specially the colours, and it tells a beautiful, utopic story - basically Americans satirizing themselves as a nation and playing a mea-culpa on other land's merciless exploitation. You can clearly distinguish Democrats from Republicans on that film as the characters are really ludicrous. It is very predictable in my opinion, but I really wasn't expecting to be surprised.