Finally saw
Dirty Pretty Things. Very nice. Aside from it seeming mechanical and not drawn out enough at times, it was expertly low key, smart, terse, and even clever here and there. A nice, wicked little contemporary noir thriller inside an intimate, socio-political wrapping.
Also rented
Eat Drink Man Woman. Anyone else here see it? It was so sweet and sour - Ha! Nice movie about a lonely but devoted widower and master Chinese chef who can't seem to directly express his deep love for his three self-consumed, libidinous daughters, so instead ritually cooks them up an extravagant weekly dinner. The plot twist near the end is hilarious, and the closure, disarmingly touching.