Last night was fun; I played with my parents' euchre club and came in second place and won 24 dollars. Very nice. I also got to watch some tennis, with mostly completely unsurprising results, at least until the back-to-back defeats of Sharapova and Roddick as I was going to bed (though since Roddick's match ended about 7 AM I imagine, I only watched the first set).
Today when I woke up (at 1030, lol) I decided to start my day by watching today's movie, which I actually started yesterday, but only got through about five minutes before getting sidetracked by various things. This entry in the count-up is the one that earned Ingrid Bergman her second of three Oscars, playing the titular character, a woman, a legend, steeped in intrigue and disbelief for many years, as people wondered if the last remaining member of the Romanovs really did escape the Bolsheviks and exist.
The plot is simple enough, and smacks a great deal of My Fair Lady in the whole "turning a common girl into royalty who will pass a 'test' while the girl and her teacher grow fond of one another despite their being somewhat combative at times" theme. Actually, that's exactly what the movie is about, summed up in so many words. The movie itself is not great; too many flat caricatures mucking about onscreen (the university student cum tutor is especially awful), but Bergman and Helen Hayes (as the matriarch of the family whose admission they seek) are terrific. Overall, I found the movie kind of meh.
Score: 6.5/10
No comments:
Post a Comment