| The Painted Veil Starring (and produced by) Edward "Lucky Escape" Norton and Naomi "Friends with Kidman, the Bitch Who Steals Corky's Film Roles" Watts.
It's set in China in the late 1920s, and it's beautifully shot, with muted humour and lots of very moving drama. A bacteriologist and his wife (who has never loved him) move to China where he can treat people with cholera, and take her away from Charlie - an aquaintance who she's been having an affair with...
It's out in the UK in April, but I wondered if it was out in the States yet?
I thought it was slow but wonderful. Probably Norton's least brilliant role ever, but he still did better than I can imagine anyone else could. The accent seemed a bit tricky for him, but he was just beautiful as the spurned husband...
__________________ A guy in Dumfries had to replace his mother's sofa because he'd fucked it.
"Why did he have to replace it?" we wondered.
"Because he'd cut a hole in it." said Andrew, authoritively.
I ventured that I would just have gone at it between the cushions.
There's more than one way to fuck a couch. |