What the Manolo Is…
Manolo says, it is Tuesday, time to see what the Manolo is…
This is the week of Meh. The book, Then We Came to the End. Meh. Yes, it is written entirely in the first person plural, but that does not make up for its meh-ness. It is too contrived by half, and too unfunny by half.
The movie Coco Before Chanel. Meh. Yes, it is all about Coco Chanel, which should furnish the screenwriters with tons of salacious early-20th century fodder. But, instead of the fabulous soap opera, it is turned into the stately costume pageant with the luminous Audrey Tatou. This is the subject which requires the actress who is more earthy and more crazy. And thus in this incarnation it is merely meh.
Thank goodness for Beverly Sills in the Tales of Hoffman.
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La BellaDonna 14 years ago
La BellaDonna, she asks, How was this possible? The skinny orphan girl who was the “courtesan” and whose boyfriend set her up in the millinery and dressmaking, and who gleefully turned around and made the skinny female figure popular for the next CENTURY, and who was the Nazi sympathiser, and who told her underpaid mannequins to take lovers to make up the fiscal shortfall when they asked for a living wage – THIS was made into a movie that was meh?
La BellaDonna, she would not put a penny into actually GLORIFYING Mlle. Chanel, but to make the dull movie – that takes a great deal of effort.
La BellaDonna, she will join The Manolo on the virtual couch to watch Tales of Hoffman – the glorious movie made England was still on the rationing and moving the piles of rubble from the war. It is the tour de force most splendid!
raincoaster 14 years ago
I must see this Tales of Hoffman. I’ve read a lot of Hoffman, and the man was clearly insane. Just my type.