(Dreamworks, directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, 2010)
Because everyone needs a bit of a break now and again. A couple of friends had told me I would love this film and so, when I saw it discounted in HMV, I thought I’d give it a go. It turns out that my friends know me only too well: I settled down with a glass of wine and had a thoroughly enjoyable couple of hours.
★★
(directed by Terrence Malick, 2011)
Well this was something a little different from the usual. Have many people seen it? I’m still trying to make up my mind about it, and I’d be really interested to know what other people think. I decided to go to see it because I really liked Terrence Malick’s last film, The New World and since The Tree of Life had won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, it promised to be worth watching. So off I trotted to the cinema.
★★★
(directed by Bertrand Tavernier, 2011)
Bertrand Tavernier’s new historical epic is a bit of a mixed bag. Based on a short story published in 1662 by Madame de La Fayette, it tells the story of a young woman’s fall from grace during the wars of religion in 16th-century France. It looks fabulous, but somehow its Gallic charm never quite forges its way through the eye to the heart.
The Idle Woman 