Everything new I hear about the film Mona Lisa Smile makes it sound better and better. I suspect it may be the coolest movie ever.
Reasons: It has Julia Stiles, Kirsten Dunst, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Julia Roberts in main parts. I like all of them a lot. Well, Julia Roberts less, but I have a lot of respect for her all the same.
Then I heard that it was a kind of Dead Poets Society about girls, and I thought cool! I love Dead Poets!
Now I find out that not only does Tori Amos have two songs on the soundtrack, she actually appears in it! She's a wedding singer, and looks rather fantastic.
I am so hanging out for when it opens.
Yesterday Lee and I saw Peter Pan. I thought it was really very well made. The kid who was Peter Pan was annoyingly cocky and endearing as he needed to be. It was such an amazing performance for a kid. All that emotion and power.
Hook was also fantastic, very debonair and actually quite sexy. No over the top red coat, which was good, and it was the same actor who played Wendy's father which I thought was a great touch. The whole movie had subtle sexual overtones which I thought were right on. Nothing the kids will pick up on, but essential to the story, which is Wendy growing up, leaving behind childhood and becoming a woman.
I thought the 'secret kiss in the corner of your mouth' as metaphor for woman was pretty hokey and a bit bizarre, but there you go. The whole story is based around kisses anyway. Wendy gives one to Peter, and Tink gets angry....They changed Tiger Lily a bit and she gave John a kiss at one point.
The humour was very good.
All round, if you think you'll enjoy Peter Pan told well, go and see it, but if it doesn't appeal at all, don't bother.
I did a beginners balance ball workout video this morning. The problem is that if it's taken by a yoga/pilates expert, she's always going to do things that beginners can't.
It was good though and I'm all stretched.
Posted by jenni at January 12, 2004 08:27 AM