Movies a cure to backaches...not really but

Despite a backache I decided to see not one but two movies.

Mation Cotillard as Edith Piaf played in La Mome http://imdb.com/title/tt0450188 (US Release Title La Vie En Rose) was one of the most amazing acting performances I have seen. She had the speaking voice and the mannerisms down, but she went from a young girl to dying 47-year old wasted by abuse to her body. Of course the music was well it was Piaf.

After a short break I met former colleagues and we watched Herbstzeitloser, a Swiss German film that had us all chortling. Filmed in the Canton of Bern in a small village, a widow in her 80s deeply mourns her husband until her friends encourage her to change his grocery store into a sexy lingerie shop with her making the lingerie, shocking her pastor son and the more conservative elements in the village. Another friend helps the old woman set up an internet business and when orders are too heavy for her to handle she ends up teaching both men and women in the old age home to embroider. It is reminiscent of the film Chocolate. The actress in the leading role was 87.

Now the back pain didn’t go away, but since it hurt anyway, I was well entertained and distracted. Je ne regrette rien...