A troubled woman goes from her rehab clinic to participate as a bridesmaid at the wedding of her sister, where she manages to annoy almost everyone.
Shot in pseudo-documentary big brother style, the film includes some dull passages, which help increase it's realism. The film largely concerns the nastiness of women.
The acting is excellent, so much so that the result is sometimes almost embarassing to watch.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Saturday, December 11, 2010
The charms of Malta: old shop signs
The charms of Malta include the old-fashioned shop signs that can be seen throughout the island. Here's a little selection:
Picture for Peter Farall
Picture for Peter Farall, oil on card, 8 x 6.5 cm discarded
Today's picture is dedicated to Peter Farall, who died earlier this week.
Friday, December 10, 2010
Reflections of trees and clouds
Reflections of trees and clouds, oil on card, 8.3 x 9.5 cm
As I paint, a tide fills the creek, wrecking clear images of clouds and trees.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010): review: 1.5/10
In London. an elderly man leaves his wife to date a prostitute of low social origins; his ex-wife consoles herself with the aid of a soothsayer and alchohol. Meanwhile, their daughter and her husband, who are an art dealer and struggling writer respectively, argue and meet others.
The stilted script and wooden acting suggest an utter lack of curiousity about how people truly fuction: as a consequence the film lacks humour or bite.
And Woody Allen's London is, as ever, insipid: completely lacking any of the messiness of the real. Indeed there is something annoying about his parade of expensive places.
Woody Allen's stock themes and devices: older man and younger woman, stuggling writers, the cultured upper middle classes, jazz music and Americans abroad are shuffled together and reproduced with increasing weariness each time he makes a film.
The stilted script and wooden acting suggest an utter lack of curiousity about how people truly fuction: as a consequence the film lacks humour or bite.
And Woody Allen's London is, as ever, insipid: completely lacking any of the messiness of the real. Indeed there is something annoying about his parade of expensive places.
Woody Allen's stock themes and devices: older man and younger woman, stuggling writers, the cultured upper middle classes, jazz music and Americans abroad are shuffled together and reproduced with increasing weariness each time he makes a film.
The Rules of Attraction (2002): review: 1.5/10
Various characters, most notably a sensitive girl, a drug dealer and a homosexual cross paths at college.
A mean-spirited and shallow depiction of mostly mean spirited and shallow college students, which is not saved by tricksy editing and camerawork, and which becomes very boring to watch.
A film that fails, primarily, for moral reasons: this is quite unusual.
A mean-spirited and shallow depiction of mostly mean spirited and shallow college students, which is not saved by tricksy editing and camerawork, and which becomes very boring to watch.
A film that fails, primarily, for moral reasons: this is quite unusual.
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