[Friday I’m In Love #3.]
“If you wish very hard with your mind, and if you wish very strong in your heart, and if you keep on wishing long enough and strong enough—”
“—You get what you want for Christmas?”
“Yes.”
Charles Boyer does nothing for me, but every time I watch a film with Irene Dunne, I ask myself why I don’t watch more films with Irene Dunne. She can switch between comedy and drama with ease, conveying either…
[Friday I’m In Love #2.]
Amazing cast, asinine script, appalling characters. I thought Gleeson was a creep in Ex Machina, but he’s downright lovable in that compared to the entitled stalker we see here.
I’ll it that I swore out loud four minutes in, when I saw that the protagonist had an Amélie poster in his bedroom. Besides the ill omen for me personally, it immediately made me wonder why a man who’d love a film like that would have…
[Friday I’m In Love #1.]
Thought I’d start a new project to correct a major blind spot in my film viewing: romance films. Began with Amélie, which was a miscalculation. (“Whimsical” is not a compliment as far as I’m concerned.) Will revisit in, say, a year to see if my tolerance has improved, but right now this is Not For Me.
Song of the Week is the vocal version of “Les Jours tristes” (music by Yann Tiersen, lyrics by Neil Hannon), which perfectly encapsulates Amélie's approach, and epitomizes everything I disliked about the film.