"Livet är att fly. Att stanna är döden."

[muckefuck]

So I evaded my domestic responsibilities today to join bunj in a matinee of Låt den rätte komma in (Let the right one in) at the Century. He was eager to see it as an antidote to all the Twilight nonsense about and, holy god, it was that! In fact, it was everything that princeofcairo promised it would be. The mise-en-scène--a desolate Swedish suburb in the middle of winter--was so enveloping that it messed with my sense of place. We returned to the car where I'd left my bag and I told my brother that I had the sense it was all quite different when we were here before--darker somehow. And this despite the fact that the sun had been out then and it was overcast now.

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[ex-macsuibhn666.livejournal.com]

Because of this post, I'm planning on going to see this movie.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Be sure you mention that when buying tickets. That's 50¢ off my next admission!

[keyne.livejournal.com]

I was a little startled to see Swedish in your header, since I didn't know it was among your panoply of languages :-)

They always tell you to watch films to practice languages, but I hate German and Swedish films and avoid them whenever possible. I think the only one I've ever enjoyed in either language was Lasse Hallström's Mitt liv som hund.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

It isn't, really, but I dabbled in it many years ago when Nuphy wanted us to adopt it as a second language.

It's odd for me to hear someone say, "I hate German films" as if they formed a proper genre of their own rather than a grab bag containing everything from Kondom des Grauens to Das Leben der anderen.

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe they don't, and I've just been unfortunate enough to find commonalities in all the ones I've been forced to watch. :/