Movies

Movie week-end this week-end!

First on the list, A Good Year with Russell Crowe and Marion Cotillard. Felt like seeing a bit of France if not a French film... The movie is not that good. Apart from the scenery that is actually. ;-)

Russell Crowe is good, not excellent as in Gladiator or Master & Commander for instance... not even sexy, pfffff disappointment!

Marion Cotillard is great. As always. A little bit too much stereotype of the handsome French girl, but she followed directions...

The other second part actors like Didier Bourdon och Tom Hollander are great. The grand-pa is quite funny.




Then, Notes on a candal with Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett.
Another film that I missed in the theatres... well, now I am happy that I rented and didn't pay a cinema ticket for it. It's good but once again it's not great.

Both actresses are really good. And Cate Blanchett's husband is played by Bill Nighy. You don't who he is, well if you're like me a fan of Love Actually then you do. In Love Actually he's playing the insane old rocker who is doing a lame come-back with an awful christmas song. Strange to see him in a serious role.

The film is about Cate having a relationship with a 15 year old boy and Judi Dench taking advantage of this secret. And it's all about psychologic manipulation.

A special note to the 15 year old boy, he has amaaazing blue eyes, incredible! And such a strong accent, got only half of what he said Gosh!

And finally, Perfume, story of a murderer. Good film, but I agree with some of the critics I read. Not as good as the movie.

It's true, in the movie there are some incredibly long and rich descriptions of scents of every scent you could think of and it can go on for pages. This was hard to put in images.

It seems as well that they have cut quite a bit of it. Well, I read the book years ago so I can't remember precisely but all seems to go quite fast in the movie and to be superficially illustrated.

But if you haven't read the book, watch the movie, definitely!