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H R

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  1. That sounds cool. What is it about?


    It's a French movie: The Horseman on the Roof

    I loved this movie because it was romantic. I never find that same kind of old-fashioned romance in American movies anymore. Why do American movies lack in this genre? And it might have to do with the fact of the period setting. The whole mood was helped along by the fact that the male lead could only communicate by letter. His narration was doleful and longing, not so much for the action he was after -- since he was wearing officer's boots his mother bought for him and he was trying to live up to his mother's dreams of him -- but to be loved in a no-frills sort of way, what his mother could never provide. And all the swashbuckling and horseback riding too. What can I say, I'm sucker for it.

    With the Europeans, they have a whole history attached to their continent where they can do a period piece like this one without coming off as reaching or affectatious. They have a real history here. They way they shoot the whole cholera scenes. I don't think an American director could do this effectively, because we've never been beset with the sort of plague that shuts down entire towns and roads and districts and threatens to engulf a nation. AIDs for example has never reached plague proportions. But with this, the road blocks, the bickering soldiers, the quarantines, the hysterical housewives protecting their children, there's a sense of dire straits that is very real, visceral. I guess it makes the fact of the leads' romance all the more important, their attachment all the more desperately needed. Nicely done.
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