The film tells the story of Adam Jones, a two-Michelin-starred chef who, until three years earlier, had been booming in Paris and had to give it all up because of his alcohol and drug habit. After spending three years in New Orleans filling second-rate roles in the kitchen (he left town after shucking a million […]
It is 1947 and we are in Maine, a U.S. state. Andy Dufresne, a brilliant vice president of a Portland bank, is accused of murdering his wife and a golf champion, who was having an affair with the woman. Andy says he is innocent, but the judge sentences him to two life terms. The man […]
Want to attend a negotiation or communication course? Maybe this film can teach you more: here is the story. A young man who says his name is Don Juan De Marco, claims to be the world’s greatest lover and the son of a great swordsman. And he wears a mask, hat, and mantle reminiscent of […]
The film is based on the book The Prince, the Showgirl and Me: The Colin Clark Diaries, published in 1995 by Colin Clark and based on diaries written in 1957, when he was assistant director for the film The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier. The film recounts the week Monroe […]
Josey Aimes is a young woman who married a violent man. After yet another fight followed by beatings, Josey escapes with her two children, Karen and Sam, to return to her hometown in northern Minnesota and seek hospitality and help from her parents. However, the woman’s life is not simple: her job as a hairdresser […]
The film is based on the novel of the same title by Henri Charrière. The protagonist is a young 25-year-old Frenchman, known as Papillon because of the butterfly he has tattooed on his chest, sentenced in 1931 to life imprisonment for a murder he did not commit. Charrière has to serve his sentence at forced […]
The film tells the story of a US Airways Airbus landing on the Hudson River and is based on the autobiography written by Chesley Sullenberger (Sully) and journalist Jeffrey Zaslow, entitled Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters. On 15 January 2009, US Airways flight 1549 takes off from LaGuardia Airport (New York) for […]
Plot How does a person feel when he or she is responsible for the future of many people and is alone in facing a desperate situation? How can the same person maintain a clear view of the facts when everyone around him or her seems to have lost their mind? The film I’m presenting will […]
Can you define coaching? If you don’t have an instant answer, don’t worry: even those we might consider experts in the matter (right or wrong) are unlikely to provide identical definitions. In my blog glossary, I defined coaching as the discipline by which a coach supports the efforts of a person, a team or organization […]
Plot The Imitation Game is the screen adaptation of Alan Turing’s biography (Alan Turing: The Enigma), written by Andrew Hodges in 1983 and published after the film’s release. In 1939, mathematician and cryptanalyst Alan Turing agreed to help his country, Great Britain, defeat Germany and end the world conflict in the shortest possible time; the […]