August films

[pandop]

The Time Traveller's Wife

I have to read the book now, as I loved this film so much. Floods of tears at the end, but wonderful all the same.

The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales, Arabian Nights

Ok, so the last of these snuck into September, but I want to talk about the whole triology. Pier Paolo Passolini's trilogy of stories within stories was really enjoyable - despite the constant prescence of an annoying actor playing the fool in all three films. The costumes were odd in places (when they were wearing any), and I don't see why he had to add extra stories to The Decameron, it isn't exactly short of them! Mixed feelings about these

Comments

[pookledo.livejournal.com]

I got the time travellers wife in my NSS pressie :)

[hazelstitch.livejournal.com]

Lovely! I think my friend has it, so I can borrow it from her :)

[mamlambo.livejournal.com]

I have much love for Pasolini. In Rome we used to watch his movies while drinking plenty of booze, which is a great way of going about things.

Hmmm I didn't like Time Traveller's Wife, it was way too glurgy for me (I read the book but haven't seen the movie, don't really wanna even though Eric Bana is always a big plus). Sadly I borrowed the book, cos otherwise I'd have sent it to you:(

[hazelstitch.livejournal.com]

Tis ok, I can borrow the book from someone else.

Eric Bana, and glurg, just what I needed at the time :)