It really astounded me to see Mike Leigh's name on Topsy-Turvy; it's delightfully stylized in a manner that I don't associate with him at all.Wonderful film.
As to American Beauty- it still surprises me how many people failed to realize that the film is a tragedy- but not Kevin Spacey's character; Annette Bening's. The film walks a very deft tightrope with her; she's always just this side of being a cartoon. That may be the problem, although there are certainly enough people who are exactly like that in real life.
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Date: 2003-05-27 02:05 pm (UTC)As to American Beauty- it still surprises me how many people failed to realize that the film is a tragedy- but not Kevin Spacey's character; Annette Bening's. The film walks a very deft tightrope with her; she's always just this side of being a cartoon. That may be the problem, although there are certainly enough people who are exactly like that in real life.