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There's only one thing that doesn't work here, but it's kind of a biggie: Mélanie Laurent's Anna is a cipher, nothing but the beautiful, brilliant, available woman who will love you forever if you don't fuck it up. It's not primarily her story, but then Casablanca is not primarily Ilsa's story, either, but we require and get the answers to the critical questions of her back story.That said, the inevitability that Oliver (Ewan McGregor) will fuck it up is drawn convincingly (perhaps because autobiographically): though raised in love, he can't love and doesn't have a clue why until his father (a perfect Christopher Plummer) comes out soon after becoming a widower. Hal and Georgia (Mary Page Keller, also perfect in a small flashback role) always loved each other, but, as you might imagine, it was complicated, and the complications have leeched into Oliver. A lovely, sad film.
Trailer
- Elle s'appelait Sarah (Sarah's key)--Kristin Scott Thomas as a present-day journalist tracking down Vichy war crimes; looks intense, naturally.
2 comments:
I liked it and found it believable and enjoyed trying to decide who was cuter--Plummer, McGregor, or the dog--but I agree that Anna was a weak point. Supposedly she can't commit because of her always-moving acting career, but the career seemed theoretical--it didn't actually affect them at all. Still, she too was pretty damn cute.
No argument there--even cuter than when plotting the massacre of Nazis in Inglourious Basterds.
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