Chocolate - (ช็อคโกแลต/Fury) Thai fighting flick. Pretty much a less frentic Ong Bak starring an autistic girl. Had some awesome fights. Ended exactly you expect, which was a bit disappointing only because it's a bit sad.
A Touch of Spice - (Πολιτική Κουζίνα/Political Cuisine) A bittersweet Greek film. This is the synopsis on Netflix: "Growing up in Istanbul under the care of his upbeat, culinary-minded grandfather, Fanis (Georges Corraface) learned the secret of a happy existence: Life, like food, requires a dash of spice. But when Fanis returns home years later, he fears he's forgotten the lesson. Taking his grandfather's philosophy out into the world, Fanis has become a first-class chef, spicing up the lives of others -- but neglecting his own."
I Netflixed it expecting this sort of film but aside from the first half of the first sentence, it is WRONG. It is, as the original title suggests, a film about how a culinary-inclined Greek-Turk (NOT a pro-chef as is suggested) was affected by the politics between the Turks and the Greeks as a boy well into adulthood. It is in Greek, Turkish, and Engish with hard subtitles (that is, they're not removable) and though I know very little Greek and no Turkish, it's painfully obvious how incomplete they are. What's worse, the sound quality is not all that great. It is ultimately a very good movie. The aunt getting cured and uncured of Parkinson's made me lol.
