Filme: The Skeleton Twins (2014)

7/10

Sinopse
"Afastados há dez anos, os irmãos gémeos Maggie (Kristen Wigg) e Milo (Bill Hader) escapam da morte no mesmo dia. Ao analisarem as suas vidas fracassadas e problemáticas, percebem que o primeiro passo para a mudança positiva pode estar na reparação do até então complicado relacionamento familiar."  (retirado de adorocinema.com)

Music is Love in Search of a Word #88

Joy William - Woman

Filme: The Trip to Italy (2014)

8/10

Sinopse

"O The Observer pediu a Rob Brydon e Steve Coogan que fizessem mais uma série de críticas a restaurantes. Eles falam de coisas como a vida, o amor, o trabalho e o exílio.
Discutem Byron e Shelley, poetas Românticos cujas vidas foram definidas pelo tempo que passaram em Itália.
Acompanhamos a viagem em que eles embarcam, os hotéis onde ficam, os restaurantes onde comem, as cozinhas e os chefs que preparam a comida e depois a conta no fim." (retirado de cinema.sapo.pt)

Audioboook: The Power to Please: Delivering Quality Customer Service by George Walther

Sinopse 
In most businesses, winning a new customer actually costs more than the profit they bring in. But a repeat buyer is almost pure profit. One customer who buys twice can be worth more than four customers who buy once but never again. (retirado de goodreads.com) 



My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Filme: Lilting (2014)

8/10


Sinopse
It is an intimate and thoughtful film about what is like to live in a world where you have no grasp of its language, and your only lifeline to that is lost. It’s about falling in love without a common language, forming relationships without a common language. How necessary it is to overcome cultural and generational barriers. Memory, grief, our familiar and often difficulties with language and communication are explored. 
Set in contemporary London, a Cambodian Chinese mother is mourning the untimely death of her son, when her world is suddenly disrupted by the presence of a stranger. With no common language they struggle to connect. Gradually, with the help of a translator, they piece together memories of a man they both loved dearly – and find solace in their grief. (retirado da página da bbc do filme lilting)

Filme: I Am I (2013)

6/10

Sinopse
"I AM I is the story of a young woman, Rachael, who meets the father she never knew, Gene, at her mother's funeral. She discovers that her father is completely delusional and believes her to be her dead mother. After Rachael visits Gene in an assisted living home, she learns that he suffers from a disease called Korsakov's Syndrome, a form of retrograde amnesia and that her mother had placed him in this facility for treatment a year earlier. He does not remember anything past the age of thirty-three, and believes that he is still a young man. Unable to convince him of who she really is, Rachael decides to go along with her father's delusions by pretending to be her mother and discovers that under this guise, she and Gene can have "normal" conversations. Before long, Rachael is visiting Gene everyday, finding new ways to bring elements from his past into their present relationship. What began as a search for understanding has become romantic and joyful, but it can't go on forever. As Rachael pieces together the past and plays out memories for Gene, her need to be seen by her father, for who she truly is, grows strong." (retirado do imdb.com)

Geneva & Gruyére, CH / Ferney-Voltaire, FR

Geneva 
Cidade pequena, cheia de portugueses e italianos, cara, eficiente (bastou assistir a um acidente de carro para perceber o quão rápido é o sistema), com relógios em cada esquina, muitas mercearias portuguesas, cinzenta  e tolerável. Não deixou marca. 

CERN

Place de Neuve

Parc des Bastions

St Pierre Cathedral

Bourg-de-Four Square

Bâtiment des Forces Motrices

Broken Chair Sculpture

Genève-Quai Gustave Ador

Gruyére
Pequena vila medieval.

• A caminho da vila do queijo, visitei a primeira fábrica de chocolates suiços. Cailler. 

Cailler

Gruyére Factory

Gruyére, ville

Gruyére

Ferney-Voltaire
Para os que vivem em Geneva, é o local eleito para as compras de fim-de-semana. 
A nível de atracções turísticas estive apenas no Château de Voltaire.

Château de Voltaire à Ferney

Château de Voltaire à Ferney

Série: Transparent (Season 1 - 2014 )

7/10

Sinopse
"Mort (Jeffrey Tambor) tem três filhos, já adultos: Ali (Gaby Hoffman), Sarah (Amy Landecker) e Josh (Jay Duplass). 
Quando ele os reúne para falar do futuro, os três ficam chocados ao descobrir que o assunto não é herança financeira, e sim que o pai deseja assumir-se como transgénero.
Todos os relacionamentos, com o mundo, com eles mesmos e um com o outro, irão se modificar à medida que os segredos e as dificuldades surgem."

Bilhete Comprado

Mini-Série: Dancing on The Edge (2013)

8/10

Sinopse
"Award-winning dramatist Stephen Poliakoff’s story of passion and prejudice blows open the volatile world of 1930s London. It’s the height of the jazz age and one group of black musicians are poised to take London by storm. As the band grows in popularity and starts to mix with the upper classes, the intoxicating combination of music, money and parties pull the characters into a glamorous but perilous world. "