{"id":1619,"date":"2007-01-07T18:36:05","date_gmt":"2007-01-07T23:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2016-08-16T18:37:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T23:37:33","slug":"four-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=1619","title":{"rendered":"Four movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has come back to me that I saw a couple of movies over the holidays that I omitted to write about.<\/p>\n

The first one is “Volver” an Almodovar film with Penelope Cruz. A riveting film about the relationships between a woman, her daughter, her mother, her sister and her aunt…and many family secrets… Granted I am a fan, but I truly enjoyed this movie.
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Another was “Babel.” I don’t know if my popcorn was bad but I did not enjoy the movie even if the critics rave about it. I found it exaggerated and way too heavy handed, lacking in subtelty.<\/p>\n

The next film was “The Queen”, again great critics. I found the actress playing the queen to be excellent, but the film was a bit boring for anyone who has followed the media coverage of all those events. I confess my grandmother took me to “see” the Queen when she visited Montreal when I was about 6 or seven years old. I still remember the pain of the pin curls she had covered my head with the night before…so I have alwasy kept an eye on royalty out of loyalty for my Nanny.<\/p>\n

The fourth was an unpretentious romantic comedy called “The Holiday” about a transatlantic house swap between two girls going through a rough time as the holidays approach. Beacuse I had no expectations, I enjoyed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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