05/30/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

A finishing school disguised as a college??

"A good wife lets her husband think that everything's his idea even when it's not."



It is 1953 and our progressive Californian Katerine Watson (Julia Roberts) goes to work at an exclusive all-female university, Wellesley College, eager to make a difference on the lives of senior college girls. This is the kind of college where you are called "subversive" when you handle things differently and Katerine finds herself in trouble with the conservative head with her unconventional teaching methods and modern way of thinking. It seems Wellesley is more concerned with turning the girls into dutiful, supportive wives and mothers than freethinking career women but Katerine is not willing to accept this and tries to show the girls that you can have both marriage and a career. Contrary to po...

Rating of
2.5/4 

11/12/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

"Mona Lisa Smile" By Nosferatu

I must say I was expecting an extremely boring movie, but as soon as I started watching it I started liking it although this movie has some melancholic parts that I’m not really a fan of.

The movie focus on a very interesting and sensitive subject: the women place in our society back in the 50's. If this movie was played back then it would be scandalous or maybe censored. But even today it teaches a lot of women some very important lesson like self-respect, sacrifice and the birth-given right to have a place in the world and in the society they're placed in. The romance obviously had to have a place in this movie and the art theme gave the movie a bit more of class and diversity.

I thought the cast was very carefully chosen. The main parts were played by very good actresses that I'v...

Rating of
3/4