What to see this weekend: 5 movies for couch potatoes

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

This weekend, Lifehacker recommends watching a sophisticated picture of the love of two beautiful women, a romantic story about the film industry of the early 20th century, a thriller with George Clooney, a British crime comedy and a touching movie about a family in which all roles are mixed up.

Carol

• Drama.
• UK, USA, 2015.
• Duration: 118 minutes

A sophisticated film about the love of two heroines performed by Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett. The film delivers aesthetic pleasure: beautiful gentle women, neat admiration for the fifties, a marginal and at the same time unpretentious love story.

"Artist" (The Artist)

• Drama, comedy.
• France, Belgium, 2011.
• Duration: 96 minutes

The film is about an extremely romantic, almost fabulous love and about silent black-and-white cinema. Almost a century separates us from this story, and this, coupled with such an unusual style, makes viewing truly wonderful. In 2012, the film won numerous awards around the world.

Michael Clayton

• Thriller.
• USA, 2007.
• Duration: 119 minutes

Intense film with George Clooney and Tom Wilkinson in the lead roles and Tilda Swinton in the background. Tilda here does not look as bright as in the movie "Long Live Caesar!" 2016, but plays soulfully, for which she won the Oscar. The plot is rather banal, but thoroughly gripping.

London Dogs (Love, Honor and Obey)

• Crime comedy.
• UK, 2000.
• Duration: 103 minutes

Jude Law and Jonny Lee Miller unleash a war between two gangster clans that until then had lived without grieving, dividing London into spheres of influence. Now they need to somehow establish a new world, and in the meantime, solve their everyday problems. There is one cute twist in the script: the names of the characters correspond to the names of the actors - a trifle, but amusing.

Infinitely Polar Bear

• Drama, comedy.
• USA, 2014.
• Duration: 90 minutes

A touching movie with brilliant acting by Mark Ruffalo. The plot is cute and simple, but fresh at the same time. An ironic story of one unconventional family.