Movie review time
Haven’t seen anything recently that has inspired me to want to write about, then saw two last weekend.
The first was Let the Right One In. A Swedish vampire film what was not scary but wasn’t without it’s horror. Very atmospheric and very cold. It has a tenderness that makes it hard to know which side you are on. The two child actors are very good, and everyone just revolves around them. Very different, very interesting.
The other movie, strikingly different, was Dean Spanley. An Edwardian film, lots of talking and very witty. Insane idea for a movie (or short novel by Lord Dunsany that it was based on) about a man who is transported back to a past life as a dog when drinking a particularly expensive wine. That was all I knew about the film when I saw it, and didn’t exactly inspire me to see it. But what fun it was. Very well acted by the small but excellent cast. But it not without it’s pathos which gives it a nice bit of depth. For a nice, happy, sad and amusing watch, very recommended.
Dean Spanley has a very good cast, by the look of it. I’ll have to watch out for it on telly in a few years’ time! I don’t get out much (with the hideous exception of 2 gruesome hours in the dentist’s chair this afternoon…). I thought you’d be too busy packing to watch movies but I guess you must deserve a break!