September 6, 2012

ALMOST TO PERFECT (AGAIN)

How it could happen again so soon I have no idea; this will be short -   Just saw what probably is the best film I've seen all year and want to recommend it.  I am still laughing through my tears.  

LES SAPHIRS (French) or THE SAPPHIRES (English) is one of those movies that you keep wishing wouldn't end. An official selection at Cannes, it is billed as a comedy but has a fantastic story, based on true events, about four Aboriginal girls in Australia in 1968 who want to escape the life laid out before them. They go to Melbourne and win a contest where they meet up with Dave, with whom they share the newspaper article they have discovered advertising for singers to entertain the troops in Vietnam during the war.

This is a fantastic story of four very ordinary Aboriginal girls who accomplish extraordinary things.  

Please don't miss it; do make it a priority to see it no matter what, even if you have to give up chocolate!