My eighty-four-year-old father and I saw this together. He raised me on Arthurian lore via Tennyson. We liked the movie very much. We loved sitting in a San Francisco cinema with people of many ages and races enjoying this exciting, hopeful, poignant resurrection of the Welsh legend. The world will always need, and perhaps now especially needs, the story of might for the greater good - not for solely individual advancement. On a side note, the vilification of Morgana has bothered my ever since I was a little girl, but there's soon redeeming feminine power in this movie.
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Blind Date
(I) (2007)
I found this to be a compelling film.
30 September 2010
I discovered the this movie on On Demand and was delighted. Yes, it deals with potentially depressing content, but its beauty is a testament to the depths of human emotion. I think this is a stunning film. Tucci's character is complex. He engenders pathos as well as being a bit off-putting at times. Patricia Clarkson does a grand job of portraying the subtleties in each of the personae her character takes on. Both actors area achingly beautiful in this movie. I liked the mise en scene created by the shabbily elegant club that evokes the early decades of the 20th century. The score/music is haunting. The movie is rather like a play, but with the bonus of close-ups add immeasurably to the experience. Tucci knows tragedy, and it certainly shows here. I feel fortunate to have found this gem.
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