Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Sept 9, 2015 17:54:31 GMT -5
Posy Simmonds is a british cartoonist who's had two of her graphic novels adapted to the silver screen.
First was Tamara Drewe by Stephen Frears in 2010, and that was probably my favorite movie of that year, as funny as it was mean. It also stared Gemma Arterton in the title role of this tragicomical love triangle on the country side.
As I myself left for the swedish country side from Paris, my theatre habit has dramaticaly declined as my downloading has increased. Thus I became less informed on the french movies recently released.
Revisiting my recent "crushes" on IMDB, I discovered another of Posy Simmonds works had been adapted, Gemma Bovery, a drama comedy with an english couple who recently moved to french Normandie and befriends with the formely book editor now bread maker neighbour, a Flaubert aficionado who is bemused by the patronym of the wife, again Gemma Arterton in Gemma Bovery's role, a referance to Flaubert's most famous novel, Madame Bovary, an absolute masterpiece of literature.
The movie could as been a british production as a french one, and is indeed here a french one with one of France's most beloved actor Fabrice Luchini, a great theatre actor who plays the aging neighbour.
The naration is very playfull, the past tense is often employed which looses our sense of time and opens a world of possibilities after a few clues are delivered. It is full of funny and classy sexual inuendoes, just utterly charming.
Low on action but filled with delightfull dialogues and twists, I highly recommend it, but you might want to start with Tamara Drewe, which is more about suspense.
Anyways, you're in for a marvelous treat of comic book movies
First was Tamara Drewe by Stephen Frears in 2010, and that was probably my favorite movie of that year, as funny as it was mean. It also stared Gemma Arterton in the title role of this tragicomical love triangle on the country side.
As I myself left for the swedish country side from Paris, my theatre habit has dramaticaly declined as my downloading has increased. Thus I became less informed on the french movies recently released.
Revisiting my recent "crushes" on IMDB, I discovered another of Posy Simmonds works had been adapted, Gemma Bovery, a drama comedy with an english couple who recently moved to french Normandie and befriends with the formely book editor now bread maker neighbour, a Flaubert aficionado who is bemused by the patronym of the wife, again Gemma Arterton in Gemma Bovery's role, a referance to Flaubert's most famous novel, Madame Bovary, an absolute masterpiece of literature.
The movie could as been a british production as a french one, and is indeed here a french one with one of France's most beloved actor Fabrice Luchini, a great theatre actor who plays the aging neighbour.
The naration is very playfull, the past tense is often employed which looses our sense of time and opens a world of possibilities after a few clues are delivered. It is full of funny and classy sexual inuendoes, just utterly charming.
Low on action but filled with delightfull dialogues and twists, I highly recommend it, but you might want to start with Tamara Drewe, which is more about suspense.
Anyways, you're in for a marvelous treat of comic book movies
