Movie Monday

I am slowly and steadily working through my list of to watch movies. And The Martian was such a pleasant surprise.

To be honest I was a bit hesitant to watch this movie but I was pleasantly surprised by it. Apart from the fact that Matt Damon is an amazing actor who has always been fun to watch this movie was actually really really good. It was fun and entertaining, yet had a good amount of drama and wasn't too science fiction if you know what I mean. I loved the soundtrack of the movie. It was just perfectly contradictory.
So if you're looking for a great Sunday night movie. This is it.

xoxo
Ramona



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Thursday Tunes

I know it has been quite a while since I shared music with you. I kept listening to this playlist for a while but it didn't feel ready and I wasn't sure if I should even share it but here it is. The playlist is called "Home". I wanted to create a playlist which gathers some of the themes I love about home like love, forgiveness, the sharing of food, the deconstructing and just being yourself, the letting go, the running towards home, the heart of it all, where we come from and family. It is the kind of playlist which you can put on when you have guest or listen to it the moment you come home or when you're homesick.
As always you can listen right here or listen and follow over on spotify.

xoxo
Ramona

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Movie Monday

Today's movie is not going to be an easy one, a comfortable one or a pretty one. Today's movie is called Sicario.

I believe film as all art should not always be pretty and entertaining but it should also interrupt us in our day to day routine to teach us something or open our eyes to circumstances going on in the world.
For me personally that is what this movie did. It interrupted. I had to keep thinking about it. It is a movie full of tension, of the question about good and evil, right and wrong and it is not a movie of solutions or letting go of the tension. You are basically left wondering.
The cinematography is beautiful and perfectly lines up with the feel of the movie. I loved seeing Emily Blunt in this role. I first saw her in The Jane Austen Book Club and then later in Queen Victoria. Both movies I loved but seeing her diversity and range of acting is really great.
I do recommend this movie but with hesitation. It's not pretty.

xoxo
Ramona






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Movie Monday

Here I am with another movie recommendation for you. I have just watched some really great movies lately and have to share with you.
Queen of the Desert is what I want you to watch asap!

This movie is based on the true story of Gertrude Bell who traveled the Arabian desert at the turn of the century. That in itself is amazing but being a woman in that position is mindblowing!
Apart from the fact that Nicole Kidman is an amazing actor, great at whatever she does this movie is done so wonderfully. The light, the quietness, the way the desert is portrayed, the way the cultures are presented, the costume design. Everything fits together.

xoxo
Ramona

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Movie Monday

We got back from Nice, France this morning (more on that soon) and it was so great to just get away for a weekend, breathe in the salty air and watch the sea.
As I am already missing the Mediterranean I wanted to recommend this movie to you: The Intern

I really don't know why it took me so long to watch it but am I happy I finally did. Apart from the amazing cast who have such great chemistry in the movie I loved the messages that were sent by the movie. Messages about cherishing experience, honoring older people, forgiving, relationships, work etc.
It was such a beautiful movie, funny, thoughtful, well done.

xoxo

Ramona

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Movie Monday

Happy Monday everyone. Hope your week started off well?!

Yesterday I went to see Brooklyn

It was such a beautiful movie. The hair, make-up and costume design was amazing and I honestly wanted to change my wardrobe afterwards.
The movie has a peaceful, quiet beauty about it which just pulls you right in so you feel everything that's going on.
I don't want to say much more about it but you should go and watch it yourself.

xoxo
Ramona
 

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Movie Monday

Another Monday another Movie or well it is the movie my flatmate and I watched on Valentine's Day. Ever since I decided to let Valentine's Day be a fun #treatyoself kind of a day where I celebrate family and friends it's just become a pretty great day which this year was finished off with cheese and popcorn and chocolate cake and Leap Year.

It is just one of those rare and really sweet romantic comedies which make you laugh, swoon, cry and happy. Let's call it a fell good movie and we all need those every once in a while, right?

xoxo
Ramona

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