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Jane Asher
"you can't be a princess, you aren't even a woman!"
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Post by als on May 19, 2007 22:36:21 GMT
Saw it last night, I thought it was really good. Very emotionally involving and heavy going, so not really something i could watch very many times, but I really cared about the characters throughout.
Has anyone else seen it?
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Post by gravedigger on May 28, 2007 19:41:40 GMT
Oh, I saw it. And I loved it. It would be in my top fifty films if it weren't for the dodgy freeze at the very, very end. I don't know why that bothered me so much. But it did. The fact that they are making a Hollywood version of this film actually makes me want to cry.
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Post by als on May 29, 2007 11:08:41 GMT
Why the fuck does Hollywood have to go and fuck around where it's not wanted? Shameful!
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Post by jetsetwilly on May 29, 2007 11:55:20 GMT
I thought it was really excellent. It also made me covet 1980s East German interior design, as the writer's flat was lovely. The only downside was seeing it with a pretentious arthouse cinema who completely overreacted to everything because they were so keen to show how enthusiastic they were about German cinema. They laughed like drains at the sun/Erich Honneker joke (which was funny, but not THAT funny) and they actually screamed when the actress got run over at the end. People in multiplexes are far more moderate in their reactions, and good on them.
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Post by als on May 29, 2007 22:03:31 GMT
I managed a gasp when that happened, but surely a scream is rather too much! Shameful pretentious twats, go to your standard Odeon and enjoy it in peace! I also loved the flat, made me want to go and riffle through all of their things and nick bits of furniture. Obviously thats the test for a good movie, whether you want to steal the contents of the characters house!
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Post by pauliepoos on May 29, 2007 22:17:03 GMT
People are usually very well behaved at my local arts cinema, although someone did start a one woman standing ovation at the end of a Sunday afternoon screening of Priest a couple of years ago (everyone else joined in the clapping, which was quite a nice feeling actually).
It's Anthony Minghella whose name is attached to the remake. I can't imagine why anyone would want to remake such a well received film so ingrained in its country's psyche.
The Lives Of Others is simply the best film of this year. I can't imagine I'll see a better one. And to recommend another German film that unexpectedly won the best foreign film Oscar, check out Nowhere In Africa.
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