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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 8, 2020 21:44:33 GMT
Have you watched The Staggering Girl? LOL That's a film about, by and probably for extremely privileged people! It's a long, expensive and kind of boring ad for Valentino. The climax is a group of beautiful women dancing in their haute culture dresses as if wearing expensive clothes is some kind of spiritual experience. EDITED I can't post the quote. I don't know why but I was answering to this: "I could add Call Me by Your Name or other movies by Guadagnino (except Suspiria), all about privileged people."
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Post by sgev1977 on Jan 2, 2021 23:25:20 GMT
Just been to see Little Women. Just in terms of the movie itself, I really liked it. The only thing that didn’t work for me was Timothee Chalmet as Laurie. He is an excellent actor but just looked too young. I know he’s 24 in real life but he looks about 16 and therefore I couldn’t really believe in him as the world weary socialite or as Amy’s husband. He looked more like he should be her little brother. I finally watched the movie. A year later! I re-read the thread (initiated by me!!!) to see the comments about the film and it seems ellie is the only one who watched it before commenting it! LOL Agreed. It's a nice little movie. It's not exactly revolutionary and maybe it was slightly overrated. I think Greta Gerwig tried to make it original playing with the narrative structure but it's not exactly something too much original. I also agreed with Chalamet. He not just look very young compared to the two sisters but also very modern! It's odd because in photos he looks very XIX century but he kind of talks and moves like a XXI century boy! I also think Florence Pugh looks very old for Amy! I mean I don't have problems with older actors playing younger but she was literally playing a little girl (11 or 12 in the book) meanwhile looking like a very adult woman. It was kind of ridiculous! She actually looks older than the older sisters and well, Chalamet who supposedly are teenagers! Also it was weird seeing her behaving like a brat! I remember she was acclaimed and some said she gave the best performance in the film but I wasn't convinced. I much preferred Kirsten Dunst's version. She was a real kid and it was easier to forgive her, well, childish behavior! Saoirse Ronan was sublime as Jo. About black characters: there are actually a few but yeah, they are mostly passerby. The most "relevant" is a woman working with Marmee in the charity house helping families of the civil war soldiers. There is even some kind of casual woke dialogue between them about feeling shame for their country.
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Post by MagdaFR on Jan 3, 2021 5:08:21 GMT
Just been to see Little Women. Just in terms of the movie itself, I really liked it. The only thing that didn’t work for me was Timothee Chalmet as Laurie. He is an excellent actor but just looked too young. I know he’s 24 in real life but he looks about 16 and therefore I couldn’t really believe in him as the world weary socialite or as Amy’s husband. He looked more like he should be her little brother. I finally watched the movie. A year later! I re-read the thread (initiated by me!!!) to see the comments about the film and it seems ellie is the only one who watched it before commenting it! LOL Agreed. It's a nice little movie. It's not exactly revolutionary and maybe it was slightly overrated. I think Greta Gerwig tried to make it original playing with the narrative structure but it's not exactly something too much original. I also agreed with Chalamet. He not just look very young compared to the two sisters but also very modern! It's odd because in photos he looks very XIX century but he kind of talks and moves like a XXI century boy! I also think Florence Pugh looks very old for Amy! I mean I don't have problems with older actors playing younger but she was literally playing a little girl (11 or 12 in the book) meanwhile looking like a very adult woman. It was kind of ridiculous! She actually looks older than the older sisters and well, Chalamet who supposedly are teenagers! Also it was weird seeing her behaving like a brat! I remember she was acclaimed and some said she gave the best performance in the film but I wasn't convinced. I much preferred Kirsten Dunst's version. She was a real kid and it was easier to forgive her, well, childish behavior! Saoirse Ronan was sublime as Jo. About black characters: there are actually a few but yeah, they are mostly passerby. The most "relevant" is a woman working with Marmee in the charity house helping families of the civil war soldiers. There is even some kind of casual woke dialogue between them about feeling shame for their country. i tried to watch it but I didn't stand Florence Pugh as a 12 years old. I think she didn't look like an adult woman either or older than Saoirse but the thing was that she looked more or less the same at that age and older. I think she tried to look younger acting like a brat, like you said, but I just found her annoying. I'm not sure how I feel about her in general.
I didn't like Saoirse much either here. But then I kind of hated this movie and i can't be objective.
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Post by sgev1977 on Jan 3, 2021 14:29:04 GMT
I think it gets better towards the end.
I feel bad for saying that Pugh looked older than everyone else! That was rude! But yeah, it was ridiculous to having her playing a child. And the issue is that Amy is not just a child but also a brat so she is not just playing a little girl but a character that you usually forgive her behavior because she is only a child!
The scene in which she is crying outside Chris Cooper and Timothe Chalamet's house is insane because she looks like a crazy woman not as a mischievous kid!
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Post by MagdaFR on Jan 3, 2021 15:06:26 GMT
Perhaps I try to watch it again but first I have other series/movies on Netflix to finish/watch.
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