Weekend Movies

I saw two very different movies this weekend.

First, I saw Cairo Time with Patricia Clarkson. As you might expect this is set in Cairo. Clarkson's character is in Cairo to meet up with her husband who works setting you UN refugee camps. The husband cannot make it, so she ends up spending time with the husband's retired security guard. The movie revolves around what does or does not happen between these two. This is a very restrained film without a lot of plot, but the scenery in and around Cairo is amazing, and as always Clarkson gives a great performance.



Then I saw the film The Town, which has more than it's share of action. Directed by and starring Ben Affleck, the film starts out with a bank heist by a group of masked marauders. Affleck's character is one of them. They kidnap the manager, but let her go once they get away. Affleck's character and the manager end up in a relationship, and she has no idea that he was one of the bank robbers. So the movie progresses with the FBI trying to nail the outlaws, and the outlaws trying to pull off bigger heists. There is a back story about the past family connections of the group of robbers, one of whom is played by Jeremy Renner. All in all it had good acting and a good script, although I thought the cars chase scenes and the shoots out were a bit over the top.