Top cast:Meryl Streep,Pierce Brosnan,Amanda Seyfried
Director:Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum
Genre:War
Region:France
Year:2009
Storyline:Afterwards, he returned to his lonely but simple life in a dingy, cramped, one-room, second-floor apartment (at he end of a row of similar brick apartments) in South Philly - in a deteriorating, bleak area of the city.And it was these fragile white fingers that penned the nightmare.Mary pricks herself while sewing, drawing blood and becoming squeamish at the sight.Percy questions why Mary ended her story prematurely: "I do think it a shame, Mary, to end your story quite so suddenly.The film""s two well-deserved Oscars were for Best Original Screenplay (Joel and Ethan Coen), and Best Actress (Frances McDormand, Joel Coen""s real-life wife).The poetic verse is taken fromMiss Kilmansegg: Her Moralby early 19th century writer Thomas Hood.The film opens with an iris-in long shot of the tree-covered mountains of California""s gold country (Placer County), filmed in documentary style.His sister-in-law, Martha greets him: "Welcome home, Ethan." Then, he kisses Martha on the forehead - she closes her eyes during the reverential kiss.[It is obvious that they have an unspoken, deep and unfulfilled mutual love for each other, although it has long been suppressed and only hinted at.