Best Movies about Travel agent

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For too many years, Hollywood movies about Vietnam have focused solely on the dark days of the war, which ravaged the nation throughout the 1960s and ’70s.

Director Steven K. Tsuchida and producer Rachael Leigh Cook have made a significant step towards changing the country’s on-screen image with romantic comedy Turistický průvodce láskou, which, somewhat incredibly, debuted at No 3 in Netflix’s global rankings upon its release on April 21.

Shot almost entirely on location in Vietnam, this by-the-numbers romcom follows travel executive Amanda (Cook) as she jets off to Ho Chi Minh City after being unexpectedly dumped by her boyfriend (Ben Feldman).

Her high-end, Los Angeles-based travel agency is looking to buy family-run outfit Saigon Star Travel, so Amanda joins one of its tours incognito to assess the business on the ground.

Initially the tightly wound, detail-oriented Amanda clashes with the laid-back approach of tour guide Sinh (Scott Ly) and his cousin Anh (Quinn Truc Tran), but is soon won over by the humble hunk’s grounded and authentic approach to tourism.

Offering few surprises in its simple, yet admittedly rather endearing plot, Turistický průvodce láskou excels as a mouthwatering introduction to Vietnam’s myriad exotic delights.

The first international production to shoot in the country since the pandemic, and filmed with the support of Vietnam’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Tsuchida’s film conjures some genuine sparks of attraction between viewer and host nation. He whisks us, and Amanda, off the beaten track and into the home of Sinh’s family, just in time to celebrate the Lunar New Year festival, Tet .

From the bustling metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City to the sun-kissed beaches of Da Nang , and Hoi An’s lantern-lit waterways , the film serves as a picture-perfect, feature-length, advert for the country’s booming tourism industry.

It should also serve as an effective calling card for Vietnamese stars Ly and Tran, both of whom simmer with a palpable on-screen charisma that threatens to eclipse romcom veteran Cook.

Were it set anywhere else, or reliant upon a conventional theatrical release model, Turistický průvodce láskou would probably have sunk without a trace after garnering little more than a shrug or a smile.

On Netflix, however, millions of homes around the world can witness – and reportedly already have – Vietnam’s intoxicating natural beauty, with a sprinkling of schmaltzy cross-cultural romance thrown in for good measure.

A Tourist’s Guide to Love is streaming on Netflix.

The Travel Agent

From her tiny office overlooking the U.S. Interests Section, 58-year old Lourdes counsels thousands of Cubans seeking a U.S. travel visa. She coaches them on answering tricky questions, fine-tuning their stories so they have a better chance of succeeding. They come from every walk of life and from all over Cuba to unveil their own life stories at the “Oficina del amor” (Office of Love), as she’s baptized it.

Despite helping others to travel, she has never been able to visit her own mother, son, brothers, grandsons, and nephews in Florida. “[I] quench the thirst of others every day, yet there is not a drop of water for me,” she says sadly. After a long wait, Lourdes’ time has finally come: her interview is set. Her dream to visit her dying mother, who emigrated during the sixties, has never been so close. Will she be able to travel and finally overturn her destiny of forced separation.

O řediteli

Born in Turin, Italy, in 1974, Niccolò Bruna is an independent filmmaker and producer.

Bruna has been experimenting the expressive tools of documentary filmmaking since he attended the EICTV School in Cuba in 1999. For the past 15 years, he has striven to carry out quality film productions with human interest while offering a fresh glance on powerful social issues.

Bruna won several awards with Dust, The Great Asbestos Trial (2011), co-directed with Andrea Prandstraller, including Best Film at the Baghdad and Rio de Janeiro Film Festivals, and a nomination for the David of Donatello prize, the Italian Oscar. As producer, he won the Ivens Prize at Cinema du Rèel, Paris, with Andrea Deaglio’s City Veins, The Future Flows Through Here v 2011.

Poznámky k filmu

The Travel Agent narrates the intimate story of Lourdes, an ordinary but extraordinary woman. It is also an universal story; one that is made of the isolation and separation that is common to many Cubans and to anyone in the world who has been forced to be separated from the loved ones by events out of their control.

The documentary was shot in the last period of the freezing relations between Cuba and the United States, during the 54th year of “bloqueo,” the economic embargo . This is also why it is a unique document, which unveils the human consequences of political choices.

Thanks to the lively strength of the protagonist, the documentary is entirely shot in cinema verité style and the narration flows scene after scene with no interviews or voice over. The Travel Agent is a tribute to the dignity of the Cuban people, always ready to face the storm with a smile. I have told about their heroic everyday life without any folklore or filters.

Ve stejnou dobu, The Travel Agent carries on my personal and human exploration of the female universe and the extraordinary resilience of women.

Review: Even if you don’t like the movies, the locations are nice

For the most part, the romantic comedy “A Tourist’s Guide to Love” follows the predictable pattern of a Hallmark-style “workaholic slows down and finds love” story. Rachael Leigh Cook plays Amanda Riley, an over-scheduled Los Angeles travel agent who suffers an unexpected setback in a long-term relationship. She recovers by taking a business trip to Vietnam, where she’s captivated both by the place and by her guide: the kind-hearted optimist Sinh Thach (Scott Ly). Though the movie’s leads are undeniably charming, director Steven K. Tsuchida and screenwriter Eirene Tran Donohue don’t give them much to do that hasn’t been done many times before.

What does distinguish their film is its setting. Amanda has been sent to Vietnam by her boss (Missi Pyle) as a kind of secret shopper, to experience the Tết celebrations and to look into the possibility of acquiring Sinh’s family-owned tour company. Hiding her true intentions, Amanda asks Sinh to take her tour group to all the country’s most popular spots; but gradually she gets more into his groove, following the flow of any given day.

Because this is a rom-com, eventually Amanda may have to risk her budding relationship with Sinh by telling him the truth; and there’s always the possibility that her noncommittal boyfriend John (Ben Feldman) will reenter the picture. But until those narrative gears start grinding again, “A Tourist’s Guide to Love” is a genuinely pleasant trip through Vietnam’s stunning-looking cities and countryside as two nice folks meander along, falling for each other.

‘A Tourist’s Guide to Love.’ TV-PG, for mild themes. 1 hour, 36 minutes. Available on Netflix

‘Cherry’

In their indie drama “Cherry,” writer-director Sophie Galibert and co-writers Arthur Cohen and Anne-Claire Jaulin make the daring choice to have their title character be a total mess. Alex Trewhitt plays Cherry, a young woman who works (sort of) as a magician at a costume shop and spends her free time either participating in a roller-skate dance troupe (when she remembers to show up) or hanging out with her boyfriend, Nick (Dan Schultz), a DJ with no interest in settling down. As the film begins, Cherry learns she’s pregnant. She has no health insurance. She has no real adult relationships to lean on. And because she’s been afraid to take a pregnancy test, she’s so far along that she has essentially 24 hours to decide what to do next.

In other words, Cherry is hardly the most sympathetic character to put at the center of a story about reproductive rights. (She even admits to never using birth control.) But that’s part of the point of this slight-but-engaging slice-of-life. These kinds of stories are rarely perfect. The easiest thing for Cherry to do would be to ask her friends and family for advice; but that’s not who she is. She’s a mixed-up youngster who half-wonders if maybe having a baby would help her mature. Ultimately, this film is less about her final decision than about how having these choices helps her figure out who she wants to be.

‘Cherry.’ Not rated. 1 hour, 16 minutes. Available on VOD

‘The Best Man’

The proliferation of “Die Hard” rip-offs in the ’80s and ’90s often lacked what made the original special: the quirky personalities of the heroes and villains. So the thriller “The Best Man” — which is essentially “Die Hard” at a destination wedding — deserves some credit for at least taking the time to let the audience get to know its characters. Brendan Fehr plays Bradley, who reconnects with his old special ops buddies Cal (Luke Wilson) and Anders (Dolph Lundgren) for Cal’s wedding at a ritzy New Mexico resort. Writer-director Shane Dax Taylor and co-writers C. Alec Rossel and Daniel Zirilli spend about a third of the film watching these guys reminisce, drink and flirt with the ladies in the wedding party.

Then mercenaries with a personal grudge invade the hotel and Bradley finds himself separated from the group, working in the shadows with the bride’s sister Hailey (Scout Taylor-Compton) to outsmart the gunmen. It’s here where “The Best Man” stumbles. The cat-and-mouse action is uninspired and slackly paced; and any pizazz that Wilson, Lundgren and Fehr bring gets lost once they stop talking and start shooting. The location is nice; and to be fair, this movie never promises more than it delivers. It’s an unambitious “Die Hard” clone with likable actors, aimed at audiences looking for something adequate.

‘The Best Man.’ R, for violence, language and brief drug use. 1 hour, 33 minutes. Available on VOD

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“Gringa” is a shaggy underdog sports story about a cranky soccer prodigy named Marge (Jess Gabor) who leaves home after her mom dies and tracks down her absentee dad (Steve Zahn), a laid-back soccer coach in Mexico. The film packs two movies’ worth of melodrama into one; but the backgrounds are lovely, Zahn and Gabor play well off each other, and the movie builds to an exciting climactic match. Available on VOD; also playing theatrically, Cinelounge Sunset, Hollywood

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„Malá sekera“ collects five vibrant, passionate Steve McQueen films (including what may be his masterpiece, “Lovers Rock”) that cover the tumultuous period from the ’60s to the ’80s in the lives of Londoners with roots in the West Indies. The Criterion Blu-ray set includes a related documentary co-directed by McQueen and James Rogan, as well as multiple interviews with McQueen, covering different aspects of this remarkable 2020 project. Kolekce kritérií

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