Kaleidoscope - film

A Good Year

noreply@blogspirit.com (Lady Iphigenia) — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:45:00 -0400

Saturday evening we wanted to go watch 300 at the movies, but being St. Pat's day and the end of the March break it was jammed packed with people, although as is our custom we arrived early! So instead to turn directly back home, we decided to rent a couple of DVDs: Borat, Ricky Bobby and A Good Year.

The two first ones are as we expected brainlessly funny. It's always refreshing to have a good laugh, and this kind of movie can be appreciated at home, no need watch on the big screen.

A Good Year is more meaningful. Based on Peter Mayle's bestseller of the same name, the story is of a workaholic British guy, Max Skinner (Russell Crowe), who inherits a property in Southern France. He travels from London to Provence to visit the gorgeous, overgrown vineyard which belonged to his late uncle Henry. Slowly, the women (especially Fanny Chenal, played by Marion Cotillard), wine, and Mediterranean climate transforms him from a soulless, unloved miser into a warm-hearted man able to appreciate the world and the simple pleasures of life he's let pass by him far too long.

Some books make me want to see the movie, sometimes the opposite happens too.

The name is...

noreply@blogspirit.com (Lady Iphigenia) — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:10:00 -0500

Can you think of which movie we've been to?

It was classy, chic, lots of money, gadgets, poker games (which I don't know anything about), nice cars (at some point, the agent double-o drives a Ford, like us! The only difference is that our is falling appart, the old thing, whereas his was all shiny high-end expensive jewel!), beautiful sceneries (I want to visit Prague! Go have a swim in the Bahamas! Oooh and Venezia, per favore!).

Présentation

noreply@blogspirit.com (Lady Iphigenia) — Sun, 14 May 2006 18:40:00 -0400

Juste un premier post sur Kaleidoscope, ou je me promets d'écrire un peu plus régulièrement que sur Blogger, d'organiser un peu plus mes pensées avant d'écrire (c'est dûr, dûr quand la cervelle elle-même est assez chaotique…), mais sutout d'écrire tantôt en français, sometimes in English, y por ahí en español, oder auf Deutsch wenn ich Mut und Lust habe!

For those of you who would like to read only in English, I chose this site because of the options of "categories" (on the side column). But, qui sait!, you might even learn a little French...

Je n'ai pas encore vu ce film, mais je crois que c'est celui de "la Pantère Rose". J'ai l'impression que l'on doit perdre beaucoup de scènes comiques si on regarde la traduction française. Une des rares joies de voir des films au Canada c'est d'avoir les choix de voir la version originale! (ça sera un p'tit truc qui me manquera quand on sera en France...)

Juste pour clarifier: l'acteur qui joue "le français" est en fait un américain. Son imitation de l'accent français est quand même drôle à se rouler par terre!