Movie Review - New York, I love you

Rating: 9/10

New York, I love you is a movie of eleven interweaved short films whose main topic is about finding love in New York city. It was preceded by Paris, Je t'aime.

What I liked most about this movie is the stellar cast. There's Shia LaBeouf, Natalie Portman, Andy Garcia, Robin Wright Penn, Maggie Q, Orlando Bloom, and more actors and actresses. It's also interesting because one of the shorts is directed by the pretty Natalie Portman. Yay! She's so awesome.

Anyway, there were five shorts I liked: the first (Andy Garcia, Hayden Christensen, and Rachel Bilson), the third (Orlando Bloom [-swoonfaintswoon-] and Christina Ricci), eighth (Taylor Geare and Carlos Acosta), ninth (Ugur Yucel and Shu Qi), and the tenth (Eli Wallach and Cloris Leachman). They're just so pretty (the eighth one was directed by Natalie Portman). :D

Book Review - The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Rating: 7/10

The Age of Innocence is the unfortunate love story of Newland Archer and Countess Ellen Olenska. Archer is engaged to May Welland, a docile maiden from a respectable family. Countess Olenska is the runaway wife of Count Olenski in Europe. With her circumstances, New York society looked down on her. I think Edith Wharton was really able to show the emotions behind the events in the story. It's, as said above, very unfortunate.

It took me a long time to read The Age of Innocence because there were parts which were uninteresting, for me. It's just not the kind of writing that I'm not used to reading, but it's definitely a good book. :)