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Greetings from Bangkok

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 1:22 pm
by Rich
Hermes wrote: 3. Beware, Beware, My Beauty Fair (Canada)
Haven't heard of that one, any info? ;)
Hermes wrote: Despite reputation to the contrary, in my opinion France is overrated. French Directors have produced many, but a lot of marginally interesting titles.
At the moment, French movies are following the Hollywood trend :cry: But ~10-15+ years ago they knew how to create movies reflecting childhood realistically.
Hermes wrote:I have a special interest in documentaries and Canadian cinema.
Do you know this one? "Secret de banlieue (2002)", is there a significant child role? :?
Hermes wrote:I absolutely hate the Olsen Twins 'films' and any film that has an actor (actresses are also 'actors') who is more than 3 years beyond her character's age. The cardinal sin in a movie is having a 19 year old play a 12 year old!
:thumbsup:

Olsen Twins looked truely awful in their early stuff, a woman with the same acting ability and/or features at the time wouldn't have been considered for any roll in TV/movies. :roll:

And having a 19 year old play a 12 year old? I agree it's pretty ridiculous, although US movies are moving away from this idea, slowly. :)

Re: Greetings from Bangkok

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 2:10 am
by paquini
That's the case of Lolita where Dominic Swain plays the rol of a little girl of 12 years old, when she was 17 years old, in the time of filming. :roll:

Re: Greetings from Bangkok

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:57 am
by Guest
I guess a lot depends on whether or not the actress/ director/ editor can pull it off. In Las Edades.De.LulĂș, (Bigas.Luna.1990), Francesca Neri played the leading role from a gawky, innocent teen to a grown, jaded woman. IMO she did it rather well.

BTW, I liked the Olsen twins in Full House and Two of a kind :thumbup1: (both TV series), but not so much now that they are all grown up. :(

Re: Greetings from Bangkok

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:19 pm
by Rich
Thanks for the info! :thumbsup: