"Les chansons d'Amour"? I don't know that one. Apparently it does exist and is well-rated on IMDb. Oh well.
Well yes, I guess you read the IMDb-page. It basically is a "musical", like the soundtrack is the core with 12 or so really good Chansons (that's what the genre is called in German) and there's a really nice story build around about love (Happines, Routine, "Threesome-Relationship", Family, Sexual Orientation). But the core is the Music.
It's true "Goodbye Lenin" was really great. I loved that movie.
This being said, there were other great German movies during the decade). Personally, I think I would personally vote for "Das Leben des Anderen" (The Lives of Others), which was totally exceptional. We could also mention "Der Untergang" (Downfall) about the last days of Hitler. The reconstitution was totally unbelievable.
I think there were better German movies than French movies during this decade.
A great French movie though was "Va, vis et deviens" (Live and Become). It's about the life of an Ethiopian Christian kid which pretended to be a Jewish Falasha in order to live in Israel. That's an incredibly powerful movie. It tells so much about today's world, and it's so hopeful. I've never cried so much in a movie theatre. It's just beautiful.
Oh yes, how could I forget "Das Leben der Anderen", Sorry! About which is better I must say that there were more good french "Comedies", while the Germans had better stronger stuff. Besides the already mentioned I think of such movies such as "L'Auberge Espanol" and of course "Bienvenue chez les Cht'is", I think this one is still on one of the top ranking places in Theatres right (more succesfull than Titanic in France...)
According to that list, the best motion picture of the decade is a Batman movie?
Well, I don't doubt the movie is entertaining, but what makes a movie being remembered isn't purely its entertaining value, but what it has brought to oneself. People who are above 12 years old generally realizes that.
I think the point of "The Dark Knight" is (besides the good effects and nice visuals) really only Heath Ledger's Joker, a role that "allegedly" killed him. The story alone (of Heath) has what is needed to become a myth and a legend...
Let's turn to other Categories:
I nominate for "Populistic/Popular Documentaries" "Bowling for Columbine" and "Supersize me" (Sorry, Religulous, you're just way too bad).
I continue to nominate for "Non-US" "Diarios de Motocicletas", "Monsieur Ibrahim et les Fleurs du Coran", "Los Debutantes".
I nominate for "Action/Fighting/Whatever" "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers"
I nominate for "LGBT" "Shortbus", "Were the World mine" and - although it's not a movie but a tv series - "Queer as Folk" (UK/US).
Speaking of Series, there's of course "Lost" and "HIMYM", and I don't want to go further ;-)
