The Good Lie (2014)

Last weekend I watched a really worth seeing film titled “The Good Lie”. This is a story of a group of young people who live in one tribe in Sudan and who lose their parents during the war in 1983. This tragedy force them to move to Kenia where is situated a camp for the refugees. After 13 years they stand a chance of a new life in the USA. However, it turns out that it isn’t as perfect as they imagined. They have to face completely different reality and deal with a huge cultural difference (or rather a chasm). Fortunately, with a help of several good people, they start to overcome all difficulties.

The film grabbed my attention from the start. It’s very moving (in the end I was crying my eyes out) and gives plenty of food for thought. And that’s why I recommend it to you :)

Musée d’Orsay

Today I would like to recommend for those of you who are interested in art a really worth-seeing place in Paris – Musée d’Orsay.

This museum is located in the centre of Paris, by the Seine, nearby Louvre, in the beautiful building which used to be a railway station built between 1898 and 1900 (the museum was established in 1986).

The museum presents mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography.

What I like the most about this museum is that it owns the largest collection of impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces in the world, including the works of art painted by such eminent artists as Monet, Manet, Renoir, Cézanne, Sisley, Gauguin or Van Gogh.

A lot of the paintings which you can see in Musée d’Orsay are considered to be leading in their epoch. It’s really nice to have an opportunity to look at them in reality, not only on the pages of student’s books :)


For more information you can visit the website: http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en

(source: best-museums.com)