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Originally Posted by teela brown
I watched 2015's Mr. Holmes last night.
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It reunites Sir Ian with director Bill Condon; they had previously worked together in "Gods and Monsters". I thought that "G&M" was a bit uneven and a bit overdone, but "Mr. Holmes" was quiet, thoughtful and understated (in a good way).
Diva: Netflix by mail. This was quite a hit in Harvard Square when it came out 35 years ago. A French film about a young letter carrier who secretly records an opera recital; she has an aversion to recordings because she believes in the immediacy of the performance. Two men in the recording industry are bent on obtaining the recording from him.
He also comes in possession of another recording of a criminal nature, so some very nasty types are out to get him as well. French comic actor Dominique Pinon (the clones in "The City of Lost Children") as a stone cold killer.
This one has aged a little better than some of the independent cult films of that era. I really liked it at the time and saw it a few times, and I'm not sorry to see it again, but it doesn't have quite the cachet that it once did. However, it was the beginning of my discovery that opera music, as Mark Twain once said, is not as bad as it sounds.