Romance and Cigarettes
Jan. 9th, 2008 02:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amatyultareIn movie news, went tonight down to good old Railroad Square Cinema (possibly the only alternative movie house in Maine north of Portland) to see 'Romance and Cigarettes'. Wow.
Summary: Working-class dressmaker Kitty Murder (Susan Sarandon) finds out as the movie opens that her ironworker husband Nick (James Gandolfini) is having an affair with a younger woman named Tula (Kate Winslet, who is amazing and the epitome of 'dirty-hot'). Kitty is Catholic and uninterested in a divorce, but declares that she 'hates' her husband and ignores him as completely as she can in their very small house in Queens, New York, shared by three grown daughters.
The movie is a musical too, sort of--characters sing along to/lip sync to popular songs (with dance routines, sometimes involving umbrellas) as their emotions get the better of them. (Watching Susan Sarandon belt 'Pieces of My Heart' with a church choir as backup=amazing.) Throw in a oddly star-studded cast (Christopher Walken, Eddie Izzard, and Mandy Moore, among others), and you have one crazy movie. But it's so very real, and even the craziest characters are believable. May I also add that it's nice to see a movie that doesn't make cariactures of the working class for once?
I highly recommend it, but one caveat: there's no real nudity (one sex scene but you don't see anything) but there is a lot of dirty talk.
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lacontessa11 reminded me of LotR humor, and I recently rewatched the extended editions which inspired me to dig up the link again: the Very Secret Diaries. For everyone who hasn't read them, or read them a long time ago and lost the link, or really anyone who needs a laugh, because they are hilarious.
Summary: Working-class dressmaker Kitty Murder (Susan Sarandon) finds out as the movie opens that her ironworker husband Nick (James Gandolfini) is having an affair with a younger woman named Tula (Kate Winslet, who is amazing and the epitome of 'dirty-hot'). Kitty is Catholic and uninterested in a divorce, but declares that she 'hates' her husband and ignores him as completely as she can in their very small house in Queens, New York, shared by three grown daughters.
The movie is a musical too, sort of--characters sing along to/lip sync to popular songs (with dance routines, sometimes involving umbrellas) as their emotions get the better of them. (Watching Susan Sarandon belt 'Pieces of My Heart' with a church choir as backup=amazing.) Throw in a oddly star-studded cast (Christopher Walken, Eddie Izzard, and Mandy Moore, among others), and you have one crazy movie. But it's so very real, and even the craziest characters are believable. May I also add that it's nice to see a movie that doesn't make cariactures of the working class for once?
I highly recommend it, but one caveat: there's no real nudity (one sex scene but you don't see anything) but there is a lot of dirty talk.
Oh and since
lacontessa11 reminded me of LotR humor, and I recently rewatched the extended editions which inspired me to dig up the link again: the Very Secret Diaries. For everyone who hasn't read them, or read them a long time ago and lost the link, or really anyone who needs a laugh, because they are hilarious.