For some people, music is a language that can be communicated without words. Up To Date's indie, foreign and documentary film critics add a new pick this weekend, that explains the beauty and power of music that speaks for itself.
Cynthia Haines
The Music of Strangers, PG-13
- The Silk Road Ensemble, led by stand-out cellist Yo-Yo Ma, followed the ancient trade route linking Asia, Europe and Africa, and orchestrated music with cross-cultural elements.
Tickled, R
- A documentary about an online fetish competition that centers on tickling. The film resulted in lawsuits and threats to the director.
Love & Friendship, PG
- Kate Beckinsale plays Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, a young English widow who uses rich men as a vehicle for her climb toward wealth and status.
Steve Walker
The Music of Strangers, PG-13
- Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble feature in a stirring, globe-trotting documentary following the great cellist's gathering of musicians from all over the world to create a "universal music language."
Tickled, R
- Engrossing and increasingly bizarre documentary follows an investigative journalist's hunt for the powers-that-be behind a subculture of tickling fetishists.
The Lobster, R
- Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz in a dark, absurdist tale about a near future where single people must partner up lest they be turned into animal
