Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Arranged

We watched this movie on Sunday night, recommended by Netflix to be of our taste. And indeed, we loved it (btw Netflix has amazing movie recommendation system, it actually works!).
Its a short movie about two young lady teachers: a muslim and an orthodox jew. How they face similar cultural difficulties related to arranged marriages, how they handle them etc. The movie has a very positive tone, not very intense, and will keep you smiling quietly. See if you can find it at some english movie rentals.

http://www.arrangedthemovie.com/

Book reviews??

I was wondering if we could add book reviews to this blog. It fits the blog since its named `Lets' have sane "reviews"' not "movie reviews". The reason being that I recently picked a book (No. I Ladies Detective Agency) after reading Shweta's review on her blog. And it went very well for me. I picked the book because after reading the review I felt that's exactly the kind of book I am feeling like reading right now. And it turned out to be what I wished for - a book with an idyllic setting, simple people, simple plots.