Complete depiction of a passionate character, albeit complicated and messy and traumatic due to diseased past and societies in Paris. Edith was ironically both disturbed and glorious; someone trapped in her oddly frustrated body, both mental and physical, yet still managed to give out the fullest of it. Gestures and mimics were enchanting; Edith's, I mean. Eyes opened wide--both when the curtains opened and when she guffawed or yelled.

posted by Graciana@Home at 5:06 am

For the first time I was rather forcefully encouraged to see a movie:

'Generally a genuine (I think) re-telling on a person's lifestory is worth pondering and learning from. Plus, the movie was well-acted; it was convincing, realistic to the point of not sparing the viewers from both loveliness and bitterness, which was so faithful to how life really is. And a really plus point, missy, the movie was artistically taken, could almost say it was beautiful; like an honest beautiful tapestry of one's life. Hope you are convinced. By the way, I slept through Transformers, and this movie kept me going full concentrated albeit longer.'

And I like this:

'Oh and last by-the-way, there's of course music, yang cocok ambek jaman-jaman model baju which you like; you know, those with renda-renda and mekrok-mekrok, and gothic somewhat.' (SG)

='D

I surely had the natural urge to see the singer's life portrayal. With SG's seriously strong persuasion, how can I resist. However, let me first wait for AK to be back from China ya =)

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Just watched Malena. Sight of outstanding beauty (Monica Belluci), victim of her own beauty? Menacing to the same sex, intimidating to those of opposite. Men are guilty of lust, women of vicious gossip and a little more than envy. And Malena, ‘that the Scordia woman committed no other crime, than that of being ill-fated alone, and beautiful..' She was beautiful, harshly misjudged, entirely in agreement with the role of seductive, available Eve. Also her peculiar power: the downcast eyes which rarely looked up, not talking much, seen to be mostly walking, yet very affective presence and mysterious charm. And false sham morality of Catholic society at odds with itself. The hatred of women mob made me think of the stoning of Mary Magdalene. Wonderfully crafted, Eros of the youth Renato was beautiful. The scenes in Sicily, Italy too. =)

(I am still haunted by D.T’s awful remark ='( Beauty is a curse on the world, it keeps us from seeing who the real monsters are.)

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