Saw it tonight.
Absolutely bloody excellent film, probably the best I've seen all year ... I thought it was better than 'Crash'.
Intelligent and incisive political thriller, based on a John le Carre novel, with a truly tender and convincing love story at its heart ... Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz are outstanding.
First film I've seen with Fiennes in which I fancied him.
Be prepared, it's pretty bleak and gives no easy answers ... but it's a pleasure to watch something so thought-provoking and so beautifully filmed.
The Constant Gardener
The Constant Gardener
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This is one film I've been wanting to see, too. I don't think it's in our theatres right now, but I'm not sure whether it was here and left or just hasn't arrived yet.
We have two multiplexes in our immediate vicinity, and they both show exactly the same movies. It is so annoying, especially this time of year when most of the 'blockbusters' are for kids.
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We have two multiplexes in our immediate vicinity, and they both show exactly the same movies. It is so annoying, especially this time of year when most of the 'blockbusters' are for kids.
Jn
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.
Aggggghhh!
I can't watch it...............yet.
I've got the book already packed for our trip to Mexico in early January, and until it's read, I'll just have to wait for the movie experience - probably on DVD.
I ADORE Le Carre's work. It's good to know that this one was able to be adapted so well to film. It's had mostly wonderful reviews, from what I've read.
But a recommendation by Pearl is just what I needed to hear!
I can't watch it...............yet.
I've got the book already packed for our trip to Mexico in early January, and until it's read, I'll just have to wait for the movie experience - probably on DVD.
I ADORE Le Carre's work. It's good to know that this one was able to be adapted so well to film. It's had mostly wonderful reviews, from what I've read.
But a recommendation by Pearl is just what I needed to hear!
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What! You didn't fancy him in GoF?Pearl wrote: First film I've seen with Fiennes in which I fancied him.
Evil Queen of Gondor
Funnily enough, Queen B, no.
He was frickin awesome as Voldy though! Nobody does evil quite like Fiennes ...
He must be one of the finest actors on the planet. He's FANTASTIC. I've seen him twice on stage and he has real charisma ... *wonders who he could have played in LOTR*
But a recommendation by Pearl is just what I needed to hear!
Thank you, Athrabeth!
Going back to the film ... it takes a piercing and uncomfortable look at white liberal guilt and Western complicity in unjust systems. And the characters are COMPLEX .and three-dimensional .. Rachel Weizs's character is noble, winsome and likeable but also something of a pain in the neck just because she has such pure principles ... it's actually pretty hard being married to someone who is on a mission. Fiennes' character is a reserved Englishman who loves his wife tenderly and comes to understand her passion and rage.
And Africa looks utterly ravishing in this film. Brutal and beautiful and ... you can SMELL the landscape, FEEL the open sky.
And there's not one single African character who looks grateful for the whites 'rescuing' them ... thank goodness.
He was frickin awesome as Voldy though! Nobody does evil quite like Fiennes ...
He must be one of the finest actors on the planet. He's FANTASTIC. I've seen him twice on stage and he has real charisma ... *wonders who he could have played in LOTR*
But a recommendation by Pearl is just what I needed to hear!
Thank you, Athrabeth!
Going back to the film ... it takes a piercing and uncomfortable look at white liberal guilt and Western complicity in unjust systems. And the characters are COMPLEX .and three-dimensional .. Rachel Weizs's character is noble, winsome and likeable but also something of a pain in the neck just because she has such pure principles ... it's actually pretty hard being married to someone who is on a mission. Fiennes' character is a reserved Englishman who loves his wife tenderly and comes to understand her passion and rage.
And Africa looks utterly ravishing in this film. Brutal and beautiful and ... you can SMELL the landscape, FEEL the open sky.
And there's not one single African character who looks grateful for the whites 'rescuing' them ... thank goodness.
"Frodo undertook his quest out of love - to save the world he knew from disaster at his own expense, if he could ... "
Letter no. 246, The Collected Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
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Faramir.He must be one of the finest actors on the planet. He's FANTASTIC. I've seen him twice on stage and he has real charisma ... *wonders who he could have played in LOTR*
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