Monday, November 15, 2021

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

Hana: There's a man downstairs.
He brought us eggs. He might stay.
Almásy: Why? Can he lay eggs?
Hana: He's Canadian.
Almásy: Why are people always so happy when
they collide with someone from the same place?
What happened in Montreal when you passed a man
in the street? Did you invite him to live with you?

Happy 25 to Anthony Minghella's gorgeous Best-Picture-winning epic, released into limited release on this day in 1996. I feel like this movie was hated for a long time but that people have maybe come around on it some? It definitely got some awards behemoth backlash. Anyway those people were always wrong -- I've loved it since Day One (and I re-watched it a few months ago and it entirely holds up) and I have never understood how anybody could spend any time hating on a film that got Juliette f'ing Binoche an Oscar. Whenever I remember that our greatest living actress has an Oscar I hate the Oscars just a little bit less.



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4 comments:

  1. jasonbkny11:43 AM

    I'm with you, my friend. This movie never fails to make me ache with its beauty

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  2. Brad3:43 PM

    Her Count Chocula cosplay still slays all these years later!

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  3. bdog5:30 PM

    I loved English Patient, I couldn't stop sobbing at the end. Sucks that he only made a few films. Kristen Scott Thomas, always good, is luminous in this. And everyone in Ripley has never been (or looked!) better.

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  4. Anonymous10:42 PM

    A-men. Juliette is the best. Just the best.

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