Trailers, various
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nineveh_ukI have just finished watching my latest Cdrama, Winter Begonia, which I really enjoyed. 49 episodes of epic pining - yes, this is 'soulmates' territory - and 1930s costume porn, both western* and Chinese, that's my kind of thing. Chinese opera is much less my kind of thing - it can't be denied that it sounds like a strangled cat crossed with an air raid siren - but the theatrical setting with one ofmthe leads being an opera singer was really interesting and certainly looked impressive. My sole previous experience of said art form is of course the film Farewell My Concubine, which I saw decades ago and didn't understand at all, even when I read the novel.** Winter Begonia goes rather easier on the viewer, introducing us to the technicalities through the device of the interested layperson character and chief fanboy/piner. Anyway, proper review to follow, here's a trailer.
(Alternatively, the shippy bromance trailer.)
Closer to home, The Green Knight has finally got a UK release date, and an excellent review in the Guardian, and seems generally to be reported interesting. That said, I feel it's a bit early for me to want to go back to the cinema. Masks and my glasses are not a good combination, and while my Covid immunity is probably OK, I really don't want to catch a cold. It's available via Amazon if you have Prime, but not to rent otherwise. So I 'll probably be waiting for this one. I wrote one of my less good undergraduate essays about the poem, so the filmmaker probably doesn't have less of a handle on it than I did.
Firmly in 'will this get a UK release in any form whatsoever?' territory is Margrete – Queen of the North (Margrete den første) about Denmark's first (and until 1972, sole) ruling queen***, and creator of the Kalmar Union. I don't know much about it, but am willing to bestow good faith on the grounds of casting a woman of appropriate age in Trine Dyrholm.
(English subtitled version refuses to embed, but can be found here.)
* I had a certain sympathy for the woman who would clearly rather have been living in 1937 Paris instead. Yes, Paris is about to be invaded, but so is 1937 Beijing.
** Picked up cheap somewhere, and now I'm rather regretting having got rid of it due to aforementioned incomprehension. The film appears to be on YouTube so I shall give that another go.
*** Technically as regent rather than regnant, not that this seems to have stopped her.
(Alternatively, the shippy bromance trailer.)
Closer to home, The Green Knight has finally got a UK release date, and an excellent review in the Guardian, and seems generally to be reported interesting. That said, I feel it's a bit early for me to want to go back to the cinema. Masks and my glasses are not a good combination, and while my Covid immunity is probably OK, I really don't want to catch a cold. It's available via Amazon if you have Prime, but not to rent otherwise. So I 'll probably be waiting for this one. I wrote one of my less good undergraduate essays about the poem, so the filmmaker probably doesn't have less of a handle on it than I did.
Firmly in 'will this get a UK release in any form whatsoever?' territory is Margrete – Queen of the North (Margrete den første) about Denmark's first (and until 1972, sole) ruling queen***, and creator of the Kalmar Union. I don't know much about it, but am willing to bestow good faith on the grounds of casting a woman of appropriate age in Trine Dyrholm.
(English subtitled version refuses to embed, but can be found here.)
* I had a certain sympathy for the woman who would clearly rather have been living in 1937 Paris instead. Yes, Paris is about to be invaded, but so is 1937 Beijing.
** Picked up cheap somewhere, and now I'm rather regretting having got rid of it due to aforementioned incomprehension. The film appears to be on YouTube so I shall give that another go.
*** Technically as regent rather than regnant, not that this seems to have stopped her.
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Date: 2021-09-26 04:15 am (UTC)Jackie Lau's romances have quite a few Chinese grannies threatening their children with opera. I admit to being amused by this.
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