Posts tagged “comedy

☆ little miss sunshine: reflections

Posted on March 14th, 2007

in a comment on to notes on a scandal post, grace stirs it up by asking, “Could you say that Steve Carell’s character in Little Miss Sunshine breaks the mold? Of course he’s a lonely, angsty bloke, but it’s never as a direct result of his queerdom, and his sexuality is never really touched on. His lover’s left him for someone else, he’s tried to kill himself… but the character of the lover would have been equally effective regardless of which genitals he possessed.” and this made me think that mynon-fandom of its unrealisticness made me miss an important aspect of the film that to-date, i haven’t seen written about: how normal the gay character was. read the little miss sunshine post read grace’s…

☆ (RE)VOLVER

Posted on December 13th, 2006

with a name like volver i had expected pedro almodóvar‘s latest to split down one of two possible narratives: either that this was a clever murder film involving a RE-volver or a really hot and sexy film playing on the associations with vulvar (little did i know at the time the word means ‘return’ in spainish). and interestingly the film touches, strangely, on both, but not in the ways you might expect. it is not a thrilling murder flick nor a steamy sex romp. volver is a suburban noir drama with soap-operatic flair, mixing antagonisers such as death, murder, incest, and infidelity into a touching story about the restrengthening of a fractured family ravaged by misfortune. it grounds itself on the experiences of five…

☆ LIGHT + DARK: DEVIL WEARS PRADA + CHILDREN OF MEN

Posted on October 31st, 2006

after a long night of drink on the weekend, saskia and i snuck gin and tonic into the cinemas to do a back-to-back movie marathon featuring the devil wears prada and children of men. the devil wears prada i thought was going to be pretty fluffy, and it was. it was a usual look at: (a) the fashion industry (b) the fabulously wealthy which made it pretty easy to tell how it was going to go. there really isn’t too much i want to say about it except that it was a bit of fun. i enjoyed that they worked in an intense level of depth to miranda priestly but did it very subtly. the few moments of weakness are not turned into melodrama…