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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 8, 2021 17:35:46 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 14, 2021 16:21:43 GMT
BC will go with JC to France and he will be at the special screening at the Paris Cinema Club... with Isabelle Huppert!!!
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Post by gingerale on Oct 15, 2021 9:38:06 GMT
The idea of BC next to Isabelle Huppert is so sexy to me 😍 I hope he dresses right. LOL
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 15, 2021 9:49:43 GMT
Lol. She is so tiny that I’m imagine both BC and JC will look like giants beside her! That’s what I’m thinking!
EDITED By the way, her connection with Jane Campion is that she really wanted to play Ada in The Piano. She kind of campaigned for it but she said that Holly Hunter was more aggressive in her own campaigning. She thought because Americans are more open about what they want and just go for it. She regretted being “more French” in that regard. That’s the role she really laments to have lost. So yeah, another actor obsessed with Campion. Actors just love her! Again, it’s crazy that critics accused her of having destroying Meg Ryan’s career but no one regrets to have work with her and would do it in a minute! Or at least, the interesting ones!
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Post by gingerale on Oct 15, 2021 10:05:31 GMT
I remember reading that same trivia about her! She's a fantastic actress in her own right.
I ventured recently into the reviews for In The Cut - so many critics were absolutely vicious towards Meg Ryan's performance. Some even mocked her for apparently being so desperate for an Oscar as to have a full frontal nude scene. It's interesting now how the film's being reconsidered by modern critics in a more positive light; I haven't had the time to read their analyses though.
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 15, 2021 11:32:20 GMT
I think a (very) few critics defended it at the time. Mostly people from art film circles. Anyway, I congratulate myself because I really thought it was good at the time. Sex as a main theme in a film could make people uncomfortable and then there were the expectations of audiences. Films about serial killers were very popular in the 1990s- early 2000s and this one seemed to have a who did it? format except that it wasn’t really about it. I remember a few critics bragging about how they were capable of guessing the killer early in the film (like the Conservative guy bragging he guessed BC’s character in TPOTD was gay at the beginning of the film as if that were the main point of the film!) and using that as a defect of the film, except that Campion isn’t interested in hiding that info. It’s not about it. It’s about women’s fears in sexual relationships and romantic love when they can’t really know the real intentions of the more physically imposing men. They thought it was a “classical” serial killer thriller but it was actually an almost academic essay about the potential horrors of the sexual relationships between men and women from the female point of view. Also yeah, Meg Ryan was cast against type (again something Campion love to do with her actors) and they weren’t prepared to see her in that role, even when she was great in it. Campion has said that she was surprised when she discovered how much Americans identified her as a romantic comedies heroine probably because, again, she wasn’t familiar with those kind of films.
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 16, 2021 1:33:13 GMT
I moved all the Paris Cinema Club related posts here because we hopefully should have BC’s photos from this event.
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 16, 2021 1:34:42 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 18, 2021 18:29:36 GMT
It seems there is ANOTHER screening with JC and Isabelle Huppert right now!
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 18, 2021 18:31:31 GMT
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