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[rm]

How the hell did I miss this in the theaters? I mean, I kept meaning to go -- I so often do, and never got there.

Just, utterly spectacular. And of course, I'm biased, I played Ko-ko in the Mikado when I was in 5th Grade at my all girls school, so I know the show and have a very, very thorough affection for it.

But how great -- perfect costumes, incredible performances, gorgeous sets, a wonderful subtlety, utterly obnoxious humour and a real heart. Wow -- there's a meaningless rave review if ever there was one. I will also add it did a lovely job at touching on the inability some/many/most (choose your own quanitifier, would you?) creative types have to interact with others in any sort of manner that is any sort of use outside of said art. I was really moved by that.

And really, who the hell says, "I know, I'll make a film about the creation of the Mikado!" -- there's a thought process / bit of serendipity I'd love some insight into.

1999 was one hell of a year in film -- and some of the crap that got recognized instead of stuff like this....

It's a good movie if you believe in the romance of theatre and all that. For someone who go beat-up by her peers because she finally scored a good role in a school show with the Mikado, it was positively bizarre.

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[rezendi.livejournal.com]

of interest: the making of (http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/9950/taubin.php).

[rm.livejournal.com]

That's lovely, thanks. I'm glad it talks about those last ten minutes of the film, because I kept waiting for all of that to creep out, and I thought it was incredible -- also that song in the Mikado is quite a thing... both in generally and to me personally, and it works so well.

I mean, I loved, that in this final moment of the film, we have three very clear portrayals of what some of us choose instead of an ordinary life -- and it's so good, and so bittersweet and so matter of fact.

Guh. Just, loved this film.