Tuesday, March 19, 2013
SECRETS
Today's movie was the first half of the NYTimes Critics' Pick Raul Ruis'
This was a miniseries overseas and the recut and packaged as a four four and 15 minute movie.
This is in the early 19th Century, sometime. A young man is told the story behind his life by the priest who saved it some years ago. Actually it is a story told by the older young man telling about the priest telling him the story when he was a young man.
I type all this out to reflect the many layers that unfold in this great sort of classical melodrama.
Classical, that is, until certain things happen and certain people appear who are not what they seem. Or are.
I am midway after all.
There is some magical realism which I always like.
I am pleased to be in the middle of this and to have a midway break (which is built into the film) to think things over.
I think that in Part II we are going to have pirates too. Well, we already do. We have also had a couple of gypsies, a countess, a priest who has other identities in people's, well his, story.
Fun.
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