It’s All This Sunlight—Who Can Keep Their Schedule Straight?
Yesterday, I called attention to Amy Kate Horn’s suggestion that you go see Cirque du Soleil, but actually I meant to call attention to Dave Segal’s suggestion to go see George Clinton and Parliament at Chop Suey, which was last night, and Cirque du Soleil was what I was supposed to call attention to today, since that’s today’s Stranger Suggest…
Sorry for that confusion. Say you went and saw Cirque du Soleil last night and are now casting around for ideas of what to do this evening. Here’s what I’d do. I’d go see La Mujer de Mi Hermano, a sexy, sexy movie set in Mexico City about some sexy, sexy people who are bored and rich and, you know, sexy, and have nothing better to do (what with all that money and boredom and muscle) than rip each other’s clothes off and ruin each other’s lives. It’s kind of soothing. Quickly: This woman is married to this man, but then she lets his brother, this guy, go down on her, and, well, things spiral out of control. Spoiler alert: one of them is secretly gay. There’s also a swimming pool and a lot of ambient music. It’s kind of stupid. Bring a date.
If that doesn’t sound appealing—if you like your movies smart and the opposite of soothing—I suggest heading to the movie store and renting John Cassavetes’ masterpiece A Woman Under the Influence, starring Gena Rowlands. For one, it’s a fantastic movie that not enough people have seen. (Went to a dinner party over the weekend and couldn’t find anyone who’d ever seen Gena Rowlands in anything.) Plus, A Woman Under the Influence is a good movie to see before you see Love Streams—also starring Rowlands, also directed by Cassavetes—a new print of which plays at Northwest Film Forum later this week.
More on Love Streams: At Friday night’s 7 pm showing, Love Streams will be introduced by Rich Jensen, of Clear Cut Press, and Calvin Johnson, of K Records. Then, afterward, there will be a debate about whether or not Love Streams sucks. There will also be free beer. Love Streams is a movie that has a lot of haters. (By the way, Love Streams is AWESOME.) Anyway, it’ll behoove you to have seen Gena Rowlands in something else. Something like A Woman Under the Influence.
UPDATE: Uh, OK, sorry everyone. La Mujer de mi Hermano is not playing anymore. It was playing at Meridian 16. It’s been pulled. Who knows why these things happen. I’m sorry for the triple confusion. I’m now going to find a hole to crawl into… where I will watch A Woman Under the Influence AGAIN.
Christopher . . . the confusion further lies with La Mujer de Mi Hermano not being liste in the movie times section. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I've been wanting to see it, but I can't find a time and place.