Stories of lost souls - Hollywood in 7 episodes

7 different short stories out of people's lifes, people who are lost in their own feelings, stuck in situations. A nice idea for a DVD, also a great cast. We got James Gandolfini in the episode "A whole new day", we got Josh Harnett in "The same", we got Jeff Goldblum, Cate Blanchett, Keira Knightley, Daryl Hannah, Hugh Jackman and a few more, actually more Top Hollywood cast than you could usually get into a movie.

The story endings are surprising and sometimes even the story ideas are. A midget who's in love and stalking his tall, great looking neighbour; a man who gambles about his car if the stranger finds out how he lost all his money this very evening; Illeana Douglas working in a supermarket and starting a theatre show there spontaniously with a collegue; a man waking up in his flat in the morning when it seems like his wife has left him with the kids and all his furniture.

I highly recommend you this DVD if you don't wait for action, romances, much drama and deeply philosophical thoughts. If you just wanna watch a nice collection of Hollywood shortfilms this is totally for you!

Romance and cigarettes - The soundtrack of a life

Christopher Walken with an umbrella and the ode to redheads

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Sometimes happy, sometimes sad, life isn't always the same. That's what "romance & cigarettes" obviously wants to show us.

It comes with a great cast: James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Christopher Walken, Kate Winslet and Steve Buscemi. And it also comes with a pleasant story that could happen everywhere around us.

Nick Murder(James Gandolfini) cheats his wife with a redhead hot girl from around the block since years. His marriage isn't working out anymore and when his wife finds out about the affair he has to choose between them two and she has to get her head, and feelings towards him, right again. And while she goes to the church he goes through hard struggeling between sex and love.

The movie is mixed up with various songs fitting the story and while the music plays, the characters sing with it. So we can, for example, see Christopher Walken killing "Delilah".

A good thing in between drama, comedy and just reality I would call the movie, not made for musical lovers but also watchable for people who don't see an artistical meaning in actors dancing around.