My Personal & Disorderly Views - Films

Even though I am quite a movie fan but, with my erratic work hours and life style, I tend to miss many films I dearly love to see. This means I don't get to see them till months or years later, when they are put on the telly. I saw the following not all that long ago.

The Treachery Of Olga Kurylenko ~

You know surely Olga Kurylenko is the gorgeous new Bond girl who appeared in the latest Bond 007 film 'Quantum of Solace'. Her charm had not managed to conquer the Russian communist party of San Petersburg (Leningrad), whose leader Sergi Malinkovich reproached the Ukrainian actress and model of being treacherous to the socialists' ideals for participating in that film, sleeping with Bond, Which equals to Ukraine is sleeping with the West. Treason!! "Where is her conscience?" he sentenced.

The curious part, not to say outright absurd, is that Olga Kurylenko played a girl from Bolivia. No matter. The accusation shows incredible ignorance, not even able to distinguish fiction from reality, facts or story telling. The girl is an actress for goodness sakes!

The Strange Case Of Benjamin Button ~

Saw the publicity photo of Brad Pitt, receding hairline with straggly grey-hair, wrinkled up face and wearing metal rimmed glasses. No trace of the sexy Pitt that melts every woman's heart. He appeared so in the film 'The strange case of Benjamin Button', based on the story by Scott Fitzgerald, in which a man who is born 80 years old (physically), but each day he 'grows' a little younger, till the onslaught of the hurricane Katrina in 2005. It's directed by David Fincher (Zodiac), and making ample use of computer generated effects, which I don't generally enjoy much.

That's why I often prefer old films, most things you see were real. Enhanced or camouflaged, but basically real.

Brideshead Revisited ~

This is the one I very much enjoyed, for the 3rd or 4th time! I saw the original TV series in one of the several reruns some years ago, and subsequently 2-3 times more and absolutely loved everything about it. I am quite a fan of Jeremy Irons and I think everyone in the cast too was just perfect. Very curious about the remake though, and simply can't quite imagine that it might equal the old one, let alone surpass it. But I am quite open and willing to be surprised. In fact I hope I will be. That would truly be delicious.

Vatel ~

Tonight The Spanish TV is putting on a film, not new but one I have not even known about the existence of. It sounds rather interesting, because of the theme, the director, Roland Joffe, and the leading star, Gerard Depardiu.

Vatel (Depardiu) was a cook and the Maestro of the royal court in the 17th century, who had organised a banquette that was to last 3 days, in the Castle of Chantilly, in honour of the Monarch Luis the 14th. Just shortly before the feast ended, Vatel, the perfectionist, committed suicide because the fish had not arrived in time!!

Perfectionist? A fool definitely, and not exactly a good chef in my opinion. He he been one, he would have immediately found or concocted a good substitute and not even the king would have known the difference, after all, presumably whatever he cooked was superb to have maintained his position in the royal court. Killing himself was like treason - now the King had nothing to eat!!!

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