muriel's
well if it looks like i've spent all weekend watching films
in my jim jams..
it's because i have and it has been glorious
watching muriel's takes me back many years.
i recognize a bevvy of soap actors from home & away
(more flashbacks to dreary existence in the fenlands)
it's also odd to see household names
toni collette and rachel griffiths
in the film that put them that launched them over a decade ago.
if the late 1970s put australia on the map as a film-making nation
to be reckoned with arty fare such as picnic at hanging rock
(among my top ten greatest films of all time)
the 1990s represented a particular time for oz
films like muriel, while marketed as "comedies"
were everything but. sure, you can get a bitter laugh in
but what you were watching was pretty flipping depressing
uber-social realism presented in over-the-top kitsch
and yet,
as i come to the denouement of muriel's. i am uplifted.
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Love, love, love this film!
And lust after her South African swimmer, obviously.
And, bizarrely, after her traffic warden "boyfriend", too, who has a sort of cute puppyish enthusiasm about him that is, well, so evocative of my own adolesc...
Better stop there.
Um.
Love, love, love this film!
YES! YES! YES!
ps alas subjected people to ghost world in the country.
sadly only catherine and i were appreciative. i understand she had
already been fully briefed by you on this pearl of a film in aformentioned basement.
tots was ranting about the sheer horror of it to Le duc only last night.... I gave him short shrift and a stern look, obviously...
Oh. By the way. LOVE Muriel. I think we should get ourselves some wedding frocks and stage a marriage in Maremma. Maude as bridesmaid. Tot A as vicar. Le Duc as master of ceremonies. Booze. Dodgy wedding dancing. Emotional speeches. What's not to like?
you and i staging our own waterloo
michael will fly in for the occasion
to lend the occasion a certain authenticity.
Natch. Goes without saying...
I also LOVED Ghost World.
But was disappointed with the director's next film, Art School Confidential.
Ah, but Ghost World... those superbly tender relationships at the core, between the two girls, and then between Steve Buscemi's character and Enid. Exquisite. I also, of course, loved the way they abused the "boyfriend", Brad Renfro. Lovely.
I'm afraid that last night I also had to tell everyone off for not liking Beau Travail.
hated this film, she was a loser at the start, middle and end of the movie
i am still recovering from when i went to see this film alone for a laugh when i was lonely, new to a new city, musta been 1994. still recovering. it's the lies miramax told at the time - see dvd cover for examples. i'm not sure where the storyline about her mother falls. maybe that would be "fun". or an "unexpected surprise". ERR.
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