No Country for Good Movie

I am flabbergasted that No Country For Old Men won best picture, while the best movie of the year, at least in my eyes, did not even get a nod.

I speaking of course of Ang Lee's Lust, Caution. An absolutely masterful movie that broke my heart in dozen pieces while wildly turning me on. (yep, it’s highly erotic, though I should not admit it, cause it’s kinda… well, not traditionally erotic I guess.) Lust, Caution is slow but as charged with energy as the interior of a pressure cooker. My breathing was altered for almost three hours, and the visuals, the story, the characters stayed with me for weeks afterwards.

Wasn't No Country for old Men was just gratuitous violence with no story? I mean if you absolutely must see people blown to bits, then watch Shoot Them Up. At least you’ll get to see Clive Owen as a carrot-eating bizarro James bond and Monica Belluci as a lactating prostitute.

As I write these words I can already see how this post is going to attract the wrong kind of crowd. Yikes! Good for traffic. Bad for reputation!

Here are photographs from the movie taken from the Focus Features website.

Now the oscars weren't entirely off course. The hopeless patriot that i am was delighted that fellow French woman Marion Cotillard won the academy award for best actress. I didn't see the movie, friends had warned me against the erratic editing and the general sense of gloom, so i passed. Everyone in France knows the movie could not have ended well. Just like the The Alamo. Doomed from the start.

If you want to get a sense of Marion Cotillard's appeal, click here and fall in love. I know i have.

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Here is Marion in Men's Vogue.

.... and in case you wondered, here is Monica Belluci as a Lactating Prostitute (no really, it's important to the story) found in ibdm

Comments

[Paola]

Go and see La Vie En Rose...

Yes the way the crazy ass editing jumps all over the place is a bit annoying but Cotillard is an absolute revelation. It really is a tour de force.

The most amazing thing is that she is on screen for the entire film and never once does she look beautiful. And then you see her in your clip or at the Oscars and wonder how that could possibly be the case.

[muralimanohar]

Wow...I LOVE your garden!!! And way to overcome obstacles! :D You SHOULD enter it!!

I haven't watched any of the movies you mentioned, and I don't intend to, lol. The emotional trauma is beyond my ability to handle right now. :p

[Design for Mankind]

You have such a LOVELY blog!!! :)

[karey m.]

a few kind words and maybe a lovely bauble for you on mackin ink.

so so so grateful for your kindness. hope you know that.

[this is glamorous]

I would agree about No Country for Old Men--exceptionally dark and depressing and violent. Have yet to see Lust, Caution, but surely it must be better.

[adelap]

un jour, oui, oui, un jour je parlerais anglais… comme marion!!!!

[Vanessa]

I read your blog it is really good. Never I have heared about this film.