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Post by Pink Betty on Oct 28, 2006 13:12:20 GMT
Is in the Independent today.
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Post by Daz Madrigal on Oct 28, 2006 13:41:44 GMT
iTS A BIT BLEEDIN LATE NOW!  |
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Post by Pink Betty on Oct 28, 2006 13:43:43 GMT
well.....mr p only just gave it to me  |
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Post by Daz Madrigal on Oct 28, 2006 13:47:06 GMT
Mind you its a bit of a boring story..very heavy going indeed. I think I've tried to finish it on several occasions but fallen asleep prior to the ending. It depends really. If it was a french version it might well be worth watching, if its english or american - forget it!
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Post by Daz Madrigal on Oct 28, 2006 13:49:11 GMT
well.....mr p only just gave it to me I'm not answering that..I've had enough sexual innuendo on the JSG board. At least when Gus does it theres hardly any innuendo involved. |
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Post by Pink Betty on Oct 28, 2006 13:50:06 GMT
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Post by Daz Madrigal on Oct 28, 2006 13:53:25 GMT
All of a sudden the Cheese boards had a flurry of activity. Maybe its the godawful weather. Lexia made me laugh..yep 2 weeks of sunshine doth indeed maketh a splendid Summer here!  Novo Caine is under the strange delusion that the entire WORLD are going to be turning their clocks back this weekend. I'm going to be a rebel and turn mine FORWARD!!...I aint going back, Man! |
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Post by Daz Madrigal on Oct 28, 2006 14:00:35 GMT
I'll give my address and pay the postage I much prefer Emile Zola and Balzac. To be honest I can't recall any other works by Flaubert. I kep reading Bovary waiting for something to happen and of course it doesnt really because she's in a boring provincial marriage. Not really my thing but I did watch Jean Florette yet again last week and if anyones (Expresso?) interested in the soundtrack I know where to download it. btw. I am NOW a proud CHAUVINIST PIG!! ....god knows what they'd make of Scorps! |
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Post by Daz Madrigal on Oct 28, 2006 14:03:16 GMT
6 out of 10!! LOL never mind..keep it! |
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Post by Nathan deGargoyle on Oct 28, 2006 14:27:14 GMT
Over-economical screenmake of a literary classic, 3 February 2003
Author: Framescourer from London
Just finished watching this film on VHS after a long search of London libraries. Disappointed, but first the good stuff... Huppert does the soul-wrent-in-twain-through-moral-confusion well. The others in the cast are unknown to me but do a better job than on the made for TV version (BBC 2002) simply because they are French (don't live day to day with ironing boards for spines). The costuming is beautiful - this is important to twist the knife as Emma's debt becomes incommutable. The bad stuff - the direction. Or lack of it. La Ceremonie is the only Chabrol film I can remember worth seeing; this film is not as bad as the recent zzz-worth Merci pour le Chocolat... there's French filmmaking and there's unabashed pretension and that film is the latter. The continuity in Bovary is sloppy as is the sound editing (although Chabrol's brother's score's OK). The final straw is Huppert's inability to find some of the naivete that is so engaging in, say, Heaven's Gate. The latter part of the film is good - it's as if her scheming to avoid the fate she is preparing for herself increases the fall she succumbs to. But at the beginning, she's the same character... there's no preparation for a transformation. And WHY - WHY OH WHY does this production insist on white sub-titles? It's such a cheap error! 5/10... buy lots of popcorm.
Doesn't really sound worth the bother.
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Post by purple joggers on Nov 1, 2006 23:14:29 GMT
Mind you its a bit of a boring story..very heavy going indeed. I think I've tried to finish it on several occasions but fallen asleep prior to the ending. It depends really. If it was a french version it might well be worth watching, if its english or american - forget it! Boring! You action man! I'd rate the book in my favourite 5 or 10 novels. Wasn't there a French film version with Isabelle Huppert as Madame B.? |
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Post by purple joggers on Nov 1, 2006 23:19:23 GMT
Oops, I see NdG has already mentioned Madame B and Madame Huppert. La Ceremonie is the only Chabrol film I can remember worth seeing Though the above only shows how few Chabrol films I imagine NdG has seen! |
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Post by Daz Madrigal on Nov 1, 2006 23:20:22 GMT
Yes that was the one given away free.
I haven't heard anything from Melon about it so presumably she fell asleep halfway through.
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Post by Daz Madrigal on Nov 1, 2006 23:22:49 GMT
Mind you its a bit of a boring story..very heavy going indeed. I think I've tried to finish it on several occasions but fallen asleep prior to the ending. It depends really. If it was a french version it might well be worth watching, if its english or american - forget it! Boring! You action man! I'd rate the book in my favourite 5 or 10 novels. Wasn't there a French film version with Isabelle Huppert as Madame B.? Well I made up for it by watching Manon De Source and Jean Florette for the 5th time. The first part is the best because in the second the peasant girl looks gorgeously photogenic but certainly doesn't look as if she'd last more than a few days out in the wilds, without a makeup bag. Other than that its brilliant. |
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Post by Nathan deGargoyle on Nov 2, 2006 9:23:44 GMT
Oops, I see NdG has already mentioned Madame B and Madame Huppert. La Ceremonie is the only Chabrol film I can remember worth seeing Though the above only shows how few Chabrol films I imagine NdG has seen! Don't know that I've seen any PJ, I'm not a great film buff. The review is from filmscourer (see the top) not me. |
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