Sunday, May 20, 2007

Double duty on Saturday night


Tonight I wore a Masaki Matsushima dress to walk the red carpet not once but twice, with barely the time for some pizza in between – exhausting really. And the first time around, I went up the steps just ahead of Andie McDowell, whose poise, beauty and grace I have always tremendously admired.

Joel and Ethan Coen’s “No country for old men” was just amazing – melancholy, dark and (very) violent yet funny, it is also a beautifully crafted film. The actors were all perfect, with the creepy Javier Bardem now a very serious contender for the Prix d’Interprétation (Best Actor Award).
Michael Moore’s “Sicko”, a plea for free universal health care in the United States, received a deliriously enthusiastic standing ovation, though in my opinion he argues his points very poorly, making sweeping generalizations based on anecdotal evidence. When a documentary-maker focuses a film so much on himself, something’s wrong. Cinematographically too, the film was disappointing – the accordion music in the sequences about France? Please…

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

show off!

Abbi J said...

you look BEAUTIFUL! thank you for sharing this amazing experience.