That forlorn face is from First Cow
MrTibbs
2804
Absolutely right, matttutor. It’s hard to forget Cookie’s expression, isn’t it? The film is First Cow, where Kelly Reichardt continues her string of thoughtful, Oregon-set character studies with excellent results. It’s one of the best films I’ve seen this year. The premise is simple (an unlikely pair team up to bake delicious goodies in a dangerous settler society) but it’s executed beautifully. There’s a clever contemporary opening that positions the film in a fated sort of way that I came to appreciate more and more as the story reached it’s climax. The little scenes where King-Lu and Cookie are selling their goods to the trappers and hunters are perfection.
Unfortunately the image capturing software I’m using might not be the best to capture the frames as it removes the intentional boxy academy aspect ratio from the image, so don’t let these disappointing shots dissuade you from checking the film out.
40:40
The cute little hut they share.
60:60
First batch of baking about to go down a treat!
80:80
Not pictured: a clafoutis.
100:100
Cookie’s been better.
Over to you, matttutor!
Right up my alley! In fact, I posted Wendy&Lucy here, a while back. New frame shortly
OK y’all, a new 20:20 to contemplate:
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
“There’s always blood.”
Correct, well done.
An enjoyable adaptation of a wonderful play by best living English playwright?
Good metaphoric frame, with our titular characters actually in midframe, but obscured by scenery!
60 More Trouble in Denmark
80 So close, our “heroes” are just off screen again!
100 Oh there one of them is! So Young!
Every once in awhile I get lucky and see a frame before all the smarter people get in here. Thanks, matttutor! Great pick. I was fortunate to see a performance of Stoppard’s Arcadia a little bit before the pandemic locked things down. He’s certainly a smarty-pants! I really enjoyed it.
So what movie would you see this at 20:20?
Amelie? I am guessing based just on the hair.
There’s a lot of Audrey Tautou energy to that head, but Amelie’s been done.
Neither Amelie nor Tailor of Panama!
Non!
This movie is going to obscure its star a little longer…
40:40
rhamorim
2817
Wondering if that is Juliette Binoche…
How about the big reveal?
That’s the period piece we’re looking for!
That 60:60 was very close to showing the late Diana Rigg in a nun’s habit.
If you had needed more help, you might have recognized the male lead (and producer) in the 80:80.
And you definitely would have in the 100:100:
A lot of beautiful scenery that didn’t make it into the shots, unfortunately. Plus Toby Jones.
This film, directed by John Curran, is a favorite of my wife’s and mine, and has always kind of felt like Our Secret Movie. Taking its premise from Somerset Maugham’s novel (which had two other film adaptations prior), it has an energetic ingenue (Naomi Watts) marrying a buttoned-up medical researcher (Edward Norton) who takes her from England to Shanghai and then, after her dalliances with the manly Liev Schreiber, to a remote Chinese village suffering from a cholera outbreak. Is he punishing her? Teaching her a lesson? Spitefully trying to get them both killed by a terrible disease? The film apparently rearranges the ending of the book to be more hopeful, but it’s all nevertheless equally disturbing and tragic.
The score is by Alexandre Desplat, if you need further incentive.
Recommended!
It was silly of us to look for qualities in each other that we never had, @Woolen_Horde. Over to you!
CraigM
2822
Clearly I haven’t been following Pippin’s career lately because I have no idea what that is.
