20 July 2010

Interview August

Marion Cotillard, no doubt promoting the summer blockbuster Inception; Ms Cotillard is part of an excellent ensemble cast (Leonardo DiCaprio is the lead) that is entirely wasted in this mind-numbing movie. I think it says alot, and none of it pretty, that the movie-going public seems to have made this confused, confusing knot of a sci-fi thriller into a hit, and critics (who should know better) have been giving it raving reviews. I've seen it and found it a rambling, inchoate mass, incomprehensible by the 12th minute, emotionless and self-absorbed. The worst of it is the pretentious, would-be intellectualizing of this chase/heist drama, which in the end is merely generic, tricked up with set-piece visuals of the obssessive kind. It's awesome: only if you're seven, or if you've never seen a movie before. At an exhausting two and a half hours, it's too long by two hours.The photos are by Mikael Jansson, half of it passable (nice cover), half of it truly banal.

7 comments:

  1. She looks conventionally beautiful here, unlike her usual weird attractiveness.

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  2. Beauty: She's not usually weirdly attractive is she? She's always quite conventional i thought? In Nine she played a housewife!

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  3. off-topic: you should add the 'Recent Comments' to your side-bar. it's rather helpful & informative, esp. for your long-time reader and/or frequent commentator.

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  4. Anon: Good suggestion... but UGHHHH how??? Help!

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  5. oh it's easy.

    1. Go to Dashboard.

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    4. Now you're in 'Add a Gadget' page. Look at the upper-left hand corner, click on 'More Gadgets'.

    5. Now at 'More Gadgets' page. Scroll down to look for 'Recent Comments'. Click on it.

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    Voila! Done. :)

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