Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by orejones (D) on October 21, 2002 at 03:12:21

In Reply to: Films that surprised you....made you do a 180?.... posted by Mrs. Piggy on October 15, 2002 at 18:53:10:

We (my wife and me) landed on it as there were no tickets for another film (the title of which I can´t even remember and, frankly, don´t mind) we had decided to see, and we just didn´t want to go back home...

After some twenty minutes, we looked each other, absolutely amazed, as that was a true film, with a carefully written script, excellent acting (Gabriel Byrne, Peter Finney, John Turturro...), very good photography, a good sense of timing..., and it was talking about noble things, in an almost epic style! As a song in praise of friendship, it has no peer: only Giovanni´s "La Scoumune" (with Belmondo, Michel Constantin, Claudia Cardinale) is comparable to it, even if the film as a whole is not at the same height...

As said, one of those rare grateful surprises we´ll always cherish! (I have seen it a couple of times more, and I have enjoyed it, once and again).

Regards

BF