In his first feature film “The Smile of the Stars”, director George C. Wolfe, who previously had a successful theater career (two Tony Awards), lets a man and a woman in their forties, both of whom are in deep life crisis, face one another to meet. And it's not just any woman and not just any man: It's Richard Gere and Diane Lane who are in front of the camera for the third time after “Cotton Club
There are countless cases in which foreign films in Germany came to the local cinemas with terribly bad, often completely meaningless German titles. Denys Arcand's “The Unexpected Charm of Money” is a welcome counterexample, because here the drastic renaming is actually well thought out. After all, the title of the dubbed version describes the playful attitude of the work much better than the orig