puppydogstail
Jane Asher
She never cooks, she keeps a filthy house and she talks profanely!
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Post by puppydogstail on Feb 3, 2007 16:08:14 GMT
Superb! The Dench as washed up old ascerbic tongued lezza is fantastic. Well worth the ticket price.
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Post by FeelsLikeKellyCrabtree on Feb 7, 2007 11:06:32 GMT
I agree completely. I went to see this last night and was expecting it to be good anyway, due to Dame Jude, but never expected it to be as good as it was. I'd go as far as to say it's one of the best films I've seen in the past few years.
The lesbian stoking scene in the kitchen was both funny and disturbing.
And who'd have thought The Dench would get her paracetamol from Asda!
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Post by pauliepoos on Feb 7, 2007 16:21:18 GMT
My favourite line was along the lines of "You live in a flat on Archway Road and you think you're Virgina Woolf?"
Yes, the stroking scene was unsettling, just as it should be, as was Bill Nighy's snorting. Also unsettling was the attractiveness of The Boy. I imagine FamousMales are literally agog with excitement.
And the music was stunning. Philip Glass never fails to score, ho ho.
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Post by Sparkle on Feb 7, 2007 23:25:00 GMT
Oh, I'm upset, I really didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. The book was much better - I liked it when things were implied and assumed rather than made explicit - much more sinister.
I really don't like Patrick Marber's scriptwriting.
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Post by Andrew* on Feb 11, 2007 23:18:13 GMT
i went with my regular cinema buddies tonight who usually disect a film in the pub afterwards. we had nothing to say about it but 'that was alright' - all the performances were good (except nighy and the crap headmaster) but i thought the music was distracting and the ending ... meh.. dencher freaked me out a good bit. Oh i thought Bill Nighy was quite good. Anyway, I enjoyed it, i thought the begininng and final 10/15 mintues were good but my attention wavered a touch in between. I was surprised how little I cared about the relationship between Cate Blanchett and the boy though. I just didn't quite beleive it. Also what annoyed me was how the teacher that was 'in love' with her was the device for her being found out. Seemed a bit of a silly way of doing it in my opinion with not very much imagination. It thought it was pretty witty too, I laughed in quite a few places and wondered if i was 'meant' to or not. Worth seeing.
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jerriblank
Su Pollard
Watch out Tyra - I'm back!
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Post by jerriblank on Feb 16, 2007 13:45:46 GMT
Ms. Dench was fabulous at chewing up the scenery I thought.
"YOU'RE NOT YOUNG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2007 15:14:12 GMT
I found this movie infinitely quotable. "Here I am! HEEERE IIII AAAAAMMMM!", "when I was at school and one of us was upset, we used to stroke each other", "they do things different in boouurgeois bohemiaaarr" etc will be bandied round my house for months.
Sadly, for a film that was so elegantly paced, the plot structure was a bit haphazard. The Dench & Blanchett Show never rang true, nor did the affair between jailbait and Sheba - relationships just sort of appeared out of nowhere and suddenly people were obsessed with each other. Since it was quite short, I think they could have elaborated on them and built them up a bit more.
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Post by Rad on Feb 25, 2007 12:20:45 GMT
The acting was far better than the plot - although I read the book not long after it came out, so I can't remember if it's the book's fault or the screenplay's. Jailbait looked a lot younger than 15. Where have I seen him before, though? He's very familiar...
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Post by Elly on Feb 25, 2007 18:47:51 GMT
Jailbait looked a lot younger than 15. Where have I seen him before, though? He's very familiar... I wouldn't say he looked younger than 15. I'd say that he looked (and acted) like a realistic 15. He's closer to the Year 10s I teach than Alex bloody Pettyfer, in any case. My mum asked at least twice if I was sure he wasn't 'that Irish lad' in Harry Potter. I'm not sure where she pulled that one from.
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Post by Rad on Feb 25, 2007 22:38:45 GMT
He was too clean to be fifteen. All the fifteen year old boys I have ever known have been greasy, grufty and acne-ridden.
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Essexgirl
Su Pollard
A dancer and a fighter
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Post by Essexgirl on Feb 28, 2007 14:23:39 GMT
I read the book, but when I saw the trailer it basically summised the whole thing very heavy handedly. The lesbian aspect was very subtle in the book. I'll probably pass.
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