March 17th 2008
Stephen Fry Appreciation Monday - Gosford Park
Dear faithful readers, happy Stephen Fry Appreciation Monday!
Today we will take a look at Gosford Park.
I have to be honest with you, I am not much of a Robert Altman fan. There I have said, I know the man is supposed to be brilliant and whatnot, however his films always leave me feeling annoyed.
It is not even that I have short attention span (heavens I have managed to follow Memento) but Altman’s signature thing to have all the characters (ok maybe not all of them but 2/3 anyway) all in the same room talking at and over each other annoy the living Beeyesus out of me.
Certainly it is all in the aid of portraying the delicate and complicated relationships between the characters but still it does sort of defies the purpose if you have to struggle to understand what one person is saying let alone a dozen of them as it usually the case.
Call me a blond inapt at multitasking, but there you have it and as I said it is purely subjective.
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