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I like dark movies. I like porn. I thought "Deed Poll" was a good combination. It was. A hustler's getting killed for sexual stimulation.

Pro: André Schneider's fine performance gave me the chills and Rainer-Maria Wittenauer was pure eye-candy. The fact that we get to see an erection a great bonus. The cameraman did a good job. The whole thing is well-written.

Contra: Barbara Kowa's overacting annoyed me. She's wearing a terrible wig and is hysterical throughout the movie. The whole Ivy character is horrible! The sound quality is poor, poor, poor! Why couldn't they afford a better sound system?

All in all: a good movie, made under very bad circumstances, with a great plot, a good ending, and a bad leading lady.

"In The Mood For Love" is a love story without love, a romance without romance ... a unique masterpiece by Wong Kar-wai, the director who dazzled cinema audiences with movies like "Happy Together" (another strained relationship) and who became famous for his fast editing.

This movie, though, is incredibly slow-moving (matter-of-factly, this is Kar-wai's "slowest" movie). His director of photography (Australian cinematographer Christopher Doyle, who photographed almost every Kar-wai movie) kind of "painted" every shot in this heartbreakingly beautiful drama. Everything, the setting, the make-up, the clothes, the dialogue, the light, and (first of all) the soundtrack, is just incredibly beautiful. You can't take your eyes off the screen. Tony Leung won the best actors' award in Cannes for his brilliant performance, and Maggie Cheung is equally good as the betrayed neighbor.

Go and watch it in a big cinema if you can. 10 out of 10!

Let me just say that without Johnny Depp's performance this would only be a so-so adventure film by Gore Verbinsky (who did an amazing job with "The Ring"). But Depp was never as powerful and funny as in this picture, and he's supported by some fine actors like Geoffrey Rush and British newcomer Keira Knightley.

A great disappointment, though, is Orlando Bloom's so-called acting. After his overrated debut in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, he chose to change bow and arrow against swords. He's decidedly lovely but utterly deadpan, his lines come out badly (how did he ever manage to go through acting school?), and his performance as Will Turner is quite clumsy. One wonders what he will do in a part that requires no fight scenes...