Film Coming Vaguely Soon…
posted by on June 19 at 11:46 AM
The oddly titled The Secret of the Grain (the “secret” turns out to be that someone has made off with the couscous) was my favorite movie at SIFF. Certain commenters seem to have felt that a movie about couscous didn’t deserve to be two and a half hours long. I disagree—the triviality of the subject matter made the insane suspense all the more delicious—but you’ll be happy to hear that the subject of Abdellatif Kechiche’s new movie is much heftier.
Yeah, Abdellatif Kechiche is making a period film about the Hottentot Venus. After all the crazy stereotyping of black women I’ve been seeing lately (Michelle Obama, the hockey star’s mom in The Love Guru), I wish it were coming out now, but we’re going to have to wait. It’s shooting in 2009, so Cannes should get it in 2010, and SIFF should get it in… 2011. (Maybe.) I can’t wait.
SATC gets reamed for being 2.20 and you're gushing over 2 1/2 hours of couscous!!!
Well, the last half hour is all belly dancing. DID SATC HAVE BELLY DANCING?! I didn't think so.
I agree about the last part.
It's amusing how the audience - people who went out of their way to watch this film - divided so much on whether they loved it (5 out of 5) or hated it (1 or 2 out of 5).
Sex and the City should have been 3 hours long ...
There was a tribe, I believe in southern Africa, that valued women with large, very large, posteriors. It became a hereditary trait that can be seen today. I'm serious. I wouldn't joke about a butt like that.
I saw that ass on the #26 today. Just sayin'...
Yes, Vince, that tribe was (and is) the Hottentots, just like it says on the picture. Or (as that name is offensive) the Khoikhoi, as they are more properly called. They were mostly driven out out of their South African homeland by the Bantu interlopers (as were the "Bushmen" or San), and then finished off by the Europeans. They're still around in much diminished numbers.
Oh, and for anyone who thinks that exhibiting Africans for the education and entertainment of white folks is a horribly wrong relic of Jim Crow America that could never be countenanced today, maybe you should ask yourself what's up with the "African Village" display in Woodland Park Zoo. Zoo. Humans. 2008. Hmm.
That's steatopygia - a lot of football players have it, too.
woah... baby got back!
At this point, the author of Ecclesiastes turns to Sir Mix-a-Lot and says, "I told you so."
what what, in that butt
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