Archive for February, 2009

The French Are Better Lovers Than Spies- “A Few Days in September” - (No Comments)

By Richard Murphy, posted on Friday, February 13th, 2009

Ah, poor Juliette Binoche. Ten years after her triumph as the nurse in the English Patient. Six years after her signature role in Chocolat. Still lovely in her forties. What could be wrong? Well, I suspect that she must be horribly upset that she was cast as Sarah Palin in a movie that came out two years before anyone knew, probably least of all Juliette, who the heck Sarah Palin is. The physical resemblance would be uncanny, but Mademoiselle Binoche tops it off with glasses and makes it even more eerie. Her voice doesn’t carry the Western twang of La Palin, but other than that, sounds like her, Of course, it is surreal in that Juliette gets to play with guns, just like the pistol packin mama from Alaska.

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Say No More about “The Man Who Knew Too Much” - (No Comments)

By Richard Murphy, posted on Friday, February 13th, 2009

The most interesting performance in The Man Who Knew Too Much was given by Peter Lorre. Lorre had just escaped Nazi Germany and did not speak English at the time. He learned his lines phonetically and was able to display his trademark sinister persona in a language he did not know.

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