“Let’s say I sleep in nothing but Yardley’s Lavender” After the all awards season hoopla, I guess I expected more from My Week with Marilyn. My favorite kind of bio picādepicting a finite amount of time in a famous person’s life rather then the full durationāit’s interesting that I find it closest in alignment to one that’s not. Much like my excitement to watch La vie en rose post-Oscar win for Marion Cotillard, I really wanted Simon Curtis‘ film to strike a cord with its microcosm look inside Marilyn Monroe‘s…
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REVIEW: La MĆ“me [La Vie en rose] [2007]
“How long does a frog live?” Why did the American producers decide to rename a foreign film with a foreign title? Doesnāt that kind of defeat the purpose? I guess I understand the decision to use one of Edith Piafās more famous songs as the name of the film about her, but they could have gotten away with La MĆ“me (The Kid). Either way La Vie en rose is a heartbreaking story about a woman finding success despite a horrid childhood. With problem after problem growing up, always being kicked…
Read MoreTop Ten Films of 2007: The Year of the Adaptation
It was a year of many genres. We had some musicals, a few dramas, comedies galore, a little sci-fi, and a couple bio-pics sprinkled in to satiate the kiddies and Oscar voters. If anything, I guess one trend seemed to rise above, that being the adaptation, whether from plays (Sweeney Todd), novels (Zodiac), or comics (Stardust). I always try to read first, but the shear amount this year prevented me from doing so, therefore I canāt quite say if they were all successes or not. In the end, after seeing…
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