Thursday, December 30, 2004
Several reasons to watch "la reine Margot"
1. The movie tells a very important part of French history. Especially because the events have a huge impact on the Dutch history. The slaughter of the protestants is the reason for a large exodus of huegenots to the Netherlands. Their fresh input and knowledge has been one of the bigger contributions to the forming of the "golden century" of the Netherlands. Without the slaughter artists like Rembrandt, Vermeer and Fabricius would probably never have gotten a chance.
2. It is discomforting to think that nowadays the back room meddling, politics and backstabbing is still taking place. Two nice examples are the poisoning of the Ukrainian president candidate with dioxin, the killing of a Ukrainian minister in his dacha and the fabricated reasons for starting a war with Iraq. Nothing has changed.
3. Isabelle Adjani. She only seems to play characters who are complete humorless and borderline hysterical. I hate watching those types. Adjani, however is such a good actress and has such screen presence that I forgive her for it.
4. The movie is more French than the french. Which is good. It is very refreshing to watch a non US type movie from time to time.
What do you know. My first contribution to the Blogging universe and still in 2004.
2. It is discomforting to think that nowadays the back room meddling, politics and backstabbing is still taking place. Two nice examples are the poisoning of the Ukrainian president candidate with dioxin, the killing of a Ukrainian minister in his dacha and the fabricated reasons for starting a war with Iraq. Nothing has changed.
3. Isabelle Adjani. She only seems to play characters who are complete humorless and borderline hysterical. I hate watching those types. Adjani, however is such a good actress and has such screen presence that I forgive her for it.
4. The movie is more French than the french. Which is good. It is very refreshing to watch a non US type movie from time to time.
What do you know. My first contribution to the Blogging universe and still in 2004.
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der kola kocht:
happy to have you aboard! a group blog now, but you'll have to give a clue about the name.
tarl cabot was the protagonist in a series of books about a fictional planet Gor on the other side of the sun from us.
looking forward to seeing dutch comments soon!
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happy to have you aboard! a group blog now, but you'll have to give a clue about the name.
tarl cabot was the protagonist in a series of books about a fictional planet Gor on the other side of the sun from us.
looking forward to seeing dutch comments soon!
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