Comments on "Elegy" & the Female Film Critic
Spleen? Like, the organ?
I agree with you, and though I don't know anything about Elegy, I remember being really disgusted by the premise of "Lars and the Real Girl" and wishing someone in Seattle had presented a feminist critique of that film. I saw about 15 minutes of it, hated the Lars character, and gave up.
There seemed to be so many obviously disturbing, misogynistic issues that this movie raised which were completely ignored by critics, and it was simply viewed as a sweet, quirky indie film. Granted, I think I only read the Weekly, the PI, and the Stranger reviews, but you expect your alternative papers to pick up on these things.
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You might want to give that movie another try. I could barely watch the beginning, but the premise of the film and its ultimate resolution are not what they appear at first glance.
I know this is beside the point, but is there any actress anywhere in the world aging as well as Penelope Cruz? Every year that goes by, she looks that much more stunning.
Good point, Annie. David Bordwell just wrote a very amusing piece about cinephile oneupsmanship: http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/?p=2662
Thank you.
well... at least if you don't like wooden boats you can go fly a kite and stay as fixated on beautiful oneupmansship as an obviously aging breast idolizor and younger cubist art student incognito.
They are radio reviews, but as I was listening to "AirTalk" this morning (LA public radio station KPCC's morning talk show with host Larry Mantle) "Jean Oppenheimer, of Village Voice Media, and Claudia Puig, of USA Today" reviewed "Elegy". And they both liked it. There is an audio file available at http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/
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