Movie drive-by mention: The Constant Gardener

[geoviki]

Every now and again, we break our routine and go out on a date. It's our anniversary today, but Sunday nights are better movie nights, so we went to see The Constant Gardener (with Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz). You know how much I love John le Carre anyway, so it was a real treat to see his book translated so well on screen (one of you asked if I'd seen it yet). I recommend it; it's very moving. My husband, who spent a year in the Peace Corps in Ghana in 1977, said it brought back memories for him of being stranded in remote towns. And the soundtrack is terrific. I slipped next door to Barnes and Noble to pick it up - here's the most gorgeous, melancholy song for us to share. Khothbiro - Ayub Ogada/Alberto Iglesias

No Harry Potter preview beforehand, but they did show the trailer for Brokeback Mountain. I'm looking forward to that one, too. But I know I'm going to cry when I see it, not because of the story or the characters or any of the obvious reasons, but because it's set in Wyoming; more specifically in some of my old field areas. They're listed by name in the story, and I just gasped when I came to it. This is having the unfortunate effect of triggering a maudlin nostalgia for days long gone. I can't explain it; but some of you of a certain age will know what I'm talking about.

Comments

[urnesha.livejournal.com]

Happy Anniversary!!! Hope you guys have many, many, many more!

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Thanks. We'll be very very very old by then, you realize.

[ravurian]

Happy Anniversary!

Also: that's not a review, that's a drive-by mention! LOL.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Header has been edited to reflect anal-retentive comment, you creep.

How the heck are you? I'm at work, too.

I read your dissertation and ...I'm not going to say what I thought so that you'll have to get off your arse and talk to me.

[ravurian]

Header has been edited to reflect anal-retentive comment, you creep.

I love you liek whoa! You make me laugh.

As for the other stuff... oh woe, woe! For my parents are standing guard over their telephone lines and I can't get online at home at the mo. Be patient, my sweet. Also: the dissertation needs setting on fire. It's curiously flat until it's not. I totally embraced the info-dump school of writing, the tell rather than show. Oy, I should be whipped upon the soles of my feet.

Um. You said 'arse'. Heh.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Um. You said 'arse'. Heh.

I thought I needed to translate for those unfortunately not Amrican-born.

[anno-domino.livejournal.com]

Happy anniversary!

I loved The Constant Gardener, it was brilliant & refreshing to see a movie where my original interpretations turned out to be wrong. I went to see it knowing nothing about it but that it was supposed to be good, & at the end, saw John Le Carre's name and said, "Oh."

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

It was good! A nice, adult film, for a change. And I even knew what was going on and still fell right into it and was absorbed. The beauty of Africa came across very well, too.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to remember what else I've seen Heath in - The Patriot was the only one, and I hated that for the gratuitous violence.

Hey, we're not getting older, we're getting...well, hell, we're getting older. Damn, how'd that happen?

[luci0logy.livejournal.com]

I hope you had a lovely day. It's my 25th anniversary on Tuesday so we're going to Barcelona again for a short break )we fell in love with the city on our last trip to Spain).

I haven't seen Ralph Fiennes at the cinema since The English Patient *sniffles* and I adore Rachel Weisz, she's got such talent. I wish the studio would sign her up to play Bellatrix LeStrange. Remeber that meme thing about who would you like to shag if you could? She'd be on that list and I'm not ashamed to say so.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Technically, you beat us by a year - we're on our 24th, but that's only because we lived together for 6 years first. Hope Barcelona's fun!

[mechaieh.livejournal.com]

Mazel tov! May you enjoy many more movies together!

...some of you of a certain age will know what I'm talking about.

Ayup. *hands over drink of your choice*

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

*Raises a toast.*

Yeah, it's hard to explain to those young folks, ya know?

[ilovemybaby.livejournal.com]

Hey!
Hmmmm, I don't know where I should be saying this, so I'm saying it here, hope you don't mind.
I just read your fanfic called "A Thousand Beautiful Things", and I just wanted to say that I love it very very mucho! I think the fact that I like most is that Draco is no evil there, which is amazing. ♥

Amazing history, amazing writting, and it's very nice that you used words from a brazilian music, cause I'm from Brazil. *grins*

xxx

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Oh, you can say it here, by all means! Thank you. See, on LJ you get to see the nifty icon I made for ATBT. I have a bunch of icons that ravurian made for the sequel to ATBT, Delicate Sound of Thunder.

I love Brazilian music! I wrote a shorter fic (also there on Skyehawke) called Waters of March - and guess where I got that title? Hahaha!