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	Create New Topic   My Posts   My forum buddies   Invite friends   Private messages Russian brides > Main Forum > Two brothers and a bride Author Post SingleTraveler Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 8/5/2004 6:30:52 AM   A movie filmed during a Russian women tour is now on DVD. The movie was filmed on A Foreign Affair tour to Saint Petersburg Russia, Movie stars David Arquette, Tim Nelson Black and Emily Mortimer. Many of the women and men in the movie were actual tour clients of A Foreign Affair tour . Press Release “Two Brothers and a Bride” is “ A Foreign Affair “ the movie re-titled for DVD Release. On July 15, 2004, the Ebert & Roeper reviewed (two thumbs up!) movie “A Foreign Affair” was released for DVD and video distribution via most major rental outlets. The distributors ascertained via past sales data that the word 'foreign' in a title would lessen popular appeal in retail outlets. “Two Brother and a Bride “ is now the release title to look for in your local rental store, online book store or the LoveMe.com website. Click on the following link to read the Ebert & Roeper review: Ebert & Roeper June 18, 2004 BY ROGER EBERT When their mother dies, Josh and Jake are saddened, yes, but they are also frightened, because Ma took care of everything. She cooked, she washed, she darned, she remembered where things were. Now there is no one to perform those tasks, and the boys are helpless. A farm they can manage, but a house is beyond them. "A Foreign Affair" shows them taking matters into their own hands. With the help of the friendly town librarian, they find a Web site that features young women from Russia who want to marry Americans and are apparently packed and ready to go. They sign up for the package tour, and find themselves in St. Petersburg, where they never expected to be and considered very desirable, which they have never been before. Their task is simpler because they are seeking only one wife. That isn't because they plan to practice polygamy, or because one of them is gay, but because they do not think of this as a true marriage. Jake (Tim Blake Nelson), the serious one, is upfront with the women he interviews: No sex, but you keep house for us for us for a few years, and you get your citizenship. His brother Josh (David Arquette) agreed to this plan back on the farm, but now, attending the nightly parties arranged by the tour group, he finds delightful women throwing themselves at him, and this is a new experience he begins to enjoy. He falls in love more or less nightly, using an ancient formula: When he's not with the one he loves, he loves the one he's with. The movie, directed by Helmut Schleppi and written by Geert Heetebrij, could have gone several ways. I can imagine it as a sex comedy, as a romance, as a bittersweet exploration of lonely people. Schleppi has a little of all three elements at work here, but it's Tim Blake Nelson's character who keeps the plot from spinning out of control, because he has a natural and unforced respect for these women that he yanks his brother's chain and keeps their mission on course. Watching Josh and Jake as they negotiate this process, Emily Mortimer plays a British documentary-maker named Angela. She's been assigned to make a film about the whole phenomenon of Internet brides, but becomes fascinated by Jake because he is not really looking for a bride in the traditional sense, and is upfront about it. As she shoots his interviews with prospective partners, we see her footage, and we sense that we are close to the line between fiction and reality. Maybe closer than we think: I was talking about the movie with Mortimer at Cannes, and she said the filmmakers and the two actors actually took the real tour to do their research. Mortimer's character provides a subtle subtext. As she watches Jake, listens to him and films him, she begins to be moved by his honesty and his good heart. He is a simple, forthright man, unlike most of those she meets, and we begin to sense he may find a bride in the last place he's looking. Or maybe that's too easy; maybe there's no way their worlds can meet, and yet she has a way of looking at him ... Do marriages like this work? Many Americans find mail-order brides or arranged marriages bizarre, but think how bizarre it is to seek your spouse in a singles bar or on a blind date. There are countless possible partners out there somewhere but we never meet most of them, and most of those we meet are impossible. Maybe it helps to use a system. If you're interested, the actual Web site is at www.aforeignaffair.com. Copyright © Chicago Sun-Times Inc. izifaddag Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 7/28/2005 4:23:26 PM   This is the same movie I have been telling everyone about. If you haven't seen it go and get it it is funny and you will recognise so much of ourselves in there. vivalasvegas Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 7/29/2005 6:56:33 AM   i watched this movie 3 times and because of it i was really turned off to the whole "socials" idea. I think this movie will attract alot of sex tourists to the socials scence and this method of finding a life mate will cease to be viable because the pool of good guys will be too dilluted by pervs who want only to sleep with hot babes. The pool of girls too will be diluted with hookers who will take advantage of the endless supply of rich americans. The really serious gals will also be turned off by this and will seek different avenues of finding foreign hubbys. I may be full of it but its my opinion only. Until i am convinced of otherwise.... no socials for me !! izifaddag Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 7/29/2005 12:46:53 PM   Viva I agree with you and I do not agree with you. Firstly this movie is very touching as well as truthful. It does not show any sex tourists. David Arquette ends up in bed with one girl only. He is young and naive and it is probably the doing of both of then with the girl taking the lead. The socials are as a klegitmate a way of finding a nice girl from FSU asn any other. It is not right for everyone but others swear by it. AFA have an astonishingly high number of marriages through their agency. I have no idea if they all stick but I also don't know how many stick that are just letter campaign marriages. It is too easy to condemn either the women or the men at these socials and I stand very nuetral about it. I just criticise the cost and the coldness of it. Personally I prefer to greet a woman at the taxi door with a red rose a smile and the promise that she will have my full and undivided attention during dinner. I am old fashioned like that. Your Reply: Your name:   New Registration Password:   Forgot password?   refresh Code:   Russian brides > Main Forum > Two brothers and a bride
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