Sad Romance Movie [Part.2]

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

Theatrical release poster The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American drama film directed by David Fincher. The storyline by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord is loosely based on the 1922 short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The film stars Brad Pitt as a man who ages in reverse and Cate Blanchett as the love interest throughout his life. Plot In 2005, elderly Daisy is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital; she asks her daughter, Caroline, to read aloud from the diary of Benjamin Button. From the reading, we learn that on the evening of November 11, 1918, a boy is born with the appearance and physical maladies of an elderly man. The baby's mother died after giving birth, and the father, Thomas Button, abandons the infant on the porch of a nursing home. Queenie and Mr. "Tizzy" Weathers, workers at the nursing home, find the baby, and Queenie decides to care for him as her own. Benjamin learns to walk in 1925; he declares it a miracle, after which he uses crutches in place of a wheelchair. On Thanksgiving 1930, Benjamin meets six-year-old Daisy, whose grandmother lives in the nursing home. Later, he accepts work on a tugboat captained by Mike Clark. Benjamin also meets Thomas Button, who does not reveal that he is Benjamin's father. In Autumn 1936, Benjamin leaves New Orleans for a long-term work engagement with the tugboat crew; Daisy later is accepted into a dance school in New York. In 1941, Benjamin is in Murmansk, where he begins having an affair with Elizabeth Abbott, wife of the British Trade Minister. That December, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, thrusting America into World War II. Mike volunteers the boat for the U.S. Navy; the crew is assigned to salvage duties. During a patrol, the tugboat finds a sunken U.S. transport and the bodies of 1,300 American troops. A German submarine surfaces; Mike steers the tugboat full speed towards it while a German gunner fires on the tugboat, killing most of the crew including Mike. The tugboat rams the submarine, causing it to explode, sinking both vessels. Benjamin and another crewman are rescued by U.S. Navy ships the next day. In May 1945, Benjamin returns to New Orleans and reunites with Queenie. A few weeks later, he reunites with Daisy; they go out for dinner. Upon failing to seduce him afterward, she departs. Benjamin later reunites with Thomas Button, who, terminally ill, reveals he is Benjamin's father. Thomas wills Benjamin his possessions before he dies. In 1947, Benjamin visits Daisy in New York unannounced, but departs upon seeing that she has fallen in love with someone else. In 1954, Daisy's dance career ends in Paris when a taxi cab crushes her leg. When Benjamin visits her, Daisy is amazed by his youthful appearance, but frustrated by her injuries, she tells him to stay out of her life. In spring 1962, Daisy returns to New Orleans and reunites with Benjamin. Now of comparable physical age, they fall in love and go sailing together. Upon their return, they learn that Queenie has died; they move in together after the funeral. In 1967, Daisy has opened a ballet studio and tells Benjamin that she is pregnant; she gives birth to a girl, Caroline, in the spring of 1968. Believing he can not be a father to his daughter due to his reverse aging, Benjamin sells his belongings, leaves the proceeds to Daisy and Caroline, and departs the next spring; he travels alone during the 1970s. Benjamin returns to Daisy in 1980. Now married, Daisy introduces him to her husband and daughter as a family friend. Daisy admits that he was right to leave; she could not have coped otherwise. She later visits Benjamin at his hotel, where they share their passion for each other. After saying their good-nights, Benjamin watches Daisy leave in a taxi from his window. In 1990, widowed Daisy is contacted by social workers who have found Benjamin — now physically a preteen. When she arrives, they explain that he was living in a condemned building and was taken to the hospital in poor physical condition, and that they found her name in his diary. The bewildered social workers also say he is displaying early signs of dementia. Daisy moves into the nursing home in 1997 and cares for Benjamin for the rest of his life. In the spring of 2003, Benjamin dies in Daisy's arms, physically an infant but chronologically 84 years of age. Daisy dies as Hurricane Katrina approaches.

Directed by	David Fincher
Produced by	Kathleen Kennedy Frank Marshall Ceán Chaffin
Screenplay by	Eric Roth
Story by	Eric Roth Robin Swicord
Based on	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Starring	Brad Pitt as Benjamin Button (adult), Caroline's biological father Robert Towers as Benjamin Button (apparent adult) Peter Donald Badalamenti II as Benjamin Button (apparent adult) Tom Everett as Benjamin Button (apparent adult) Spencer Daniels as Benjamin Button (apparent age 12) Chandler Canterbury as Benjamin Button (apparent age 8) Charles Henry Wyson as Benjamin Button (apparent age 5) Cate Blanchett as Daisy Fuller (adult) Elle Fanning as Daisy Fuller (age 6) Madisen Beaty as Daisy Fuller (age 11) Taraji P. Henson as Queenie Julia Ormond as Caroline Fuller (adult), Benjamin and Daisy's daughter Shiloh Jolie-Pitt as Caroline Fuller (age 2) Jason Flemyng as Thomas Button, Benjamin's father Mahershalalhashbaz Ali as Tizzy Weathers Jared Harris as Captain Mike Clark Faune A. Chambers as Dorothy Baker Elias Koteas as Monsieur Gateau, a blind clockmaker in a story Daisy tells Caroline Ed Metzger as Theodore Roosevelt Phyllis Somerville as Grandma Fuller Josh Stewart as Pleasant Curtis Tilda Swinton as Elizabeth Abbott Bianca Chiminello as Daisy's friend Rampai Mohadi as Ngunda Oti Lance E. Nichols as Preacher Edith Ivey as "The woman who taught him to play piano"
Music by	Alexandre Desplat
Cinematography	Claudio Miranda
Editing by	Kirk Baxter Angus Wall
Studio	The Kennedy/Marshall Company
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures Warner Bros. Pictures
Release dates	December 25, 2008
Running time	166 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Amour (2012)
French release poster Plot A brigade of firemen break down the door of an apartment in Paris to find the corpse of Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) lying on a bed, adorned with cut flowers. Several months earlier, Anne and her husband Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant), both retired piano teachers in their eighties, attend a performance by one of Anne's former pupils. The next morning while they are eating breakfast, Anne silently suffers a stroke. She sits in a catatonic state, not responding to Georges. She comes around as Georges is about to get help, but doesn't remember anything that took place. Georges thinks she was playing a prank on him. Anne is unable to pour herself a drink. Anne undergoes surgery on a blocked carotid artery, but the surgery goes wrong, leaving her paralyzed on her right side and confined to a wheelchair. She makes Georges promise not to send her back to the hospital or into a nursing home. Georges becomes Anne's dutiful, though slightly irritated, caretaker. One day, Anne tells Georges that she doesn't want to go on living. The pupil whose performance they attended stops by and Anne gets dressed up and carries on a lively conversation during the visit, giving Georges hope that her condition was temporary. However, she soon suffers a second stroke that leaves her demented and incapable of coherent speech. Georges continues to look after Anne, despite the strain it puts on him. Georges begins employing a nurse three days a week. Their daughter, Eva (Isabelle Huppert), wants her mother to go into care, but Georges says he will not break the promise he made to his wife. He employs a second nurse, but fires her after he discovers she is mistreating his wife. One day, Georges sits next to Anne's bedside and tells her a story of his childhood, which calms her. As he reaches the story's conclusion, he picks up a pillow and smothers her. Georges returns home with bundles of flowers in his hands, which he proceeds to wash and cut. He picks out a dress from Anne's wardrobe and writes a long letter. He tapes the bedroom door shut and catches a pigeon which has flown in from the window. In the letter, Georges explains that he has released the pigeon. Georges imagines that Anne is washing dishes in the kitchen and, speechless, he gazes at her as she cleans up and prepares to leave the house. Anne calls for Georges to bring a coat, and he complies, following her out the door. The film concludes with a continuation of the opening scene, with Eva seated in the living room, after she has wandered around the now-empty home.
Directed by	Michael Haneke
Produced by	Margaret Ménégoz Stefan Arndt Veit Heiduschka Michael Katz
Written by	Michael Haneke
Starring	Jean-Louis Trintignant as Georges Laurent Emmanuelle Riva as Anne Laurent Isabelle Huppert as Eva Laurent Alexandre Tharaud as Alexandre William Shimell as Geoff Ramón Agirre as Concierge's husband Rita Blanco as Concierge Carole Franck as Nurse Dinara Droukarova as Nurse Laurent Capelluto as Police officer Jean-Michel Monroc as Police officer Suzanne Schmidt as Neighbor Walid Afkir as Paramedic Damien Jouillerot as Paramedic
Cinematography	Darius Khondji
Editing by	Monika Willi Nadine Muse
Studio	Les Films du Losange X-Filme Creative Pool Wega Film France 3 Cinéma Canal+
Distributed by	Artificial Eye (UK) Sony Pictures Classics (US)
Release dates	20 May 2012 (Cannes) 20 September 2012 (Germany) 24 October 2012 (France)
Running time	127 minutes[1][2]
Country	France Germany Austria
Language	French