February 18, 2005

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Living in France, I'm a bit out of touch with the American move scene...

    By Jack Grant

...but given what James Wolcott has written about Million Dollar Baby, perhaps I should make an effort to see the version originale here, since I don't yet understand French well enough to get the subtleties of the dubbed version.

I've more often than not enjoyed movies directed by Clint Eastwood, although I haven't seen the one before Million Dollar Baby yet. He has a dark, grim, yet still hopeful in the end vision that matches mine.

Posted by Jack Grant at 02:57 on 18 February 2005
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Mystic River was very overrated- a Kojack film w no poetry nor depth, and a bizarre scene at the end where Sean Penn, topless, tries channeling Kirk Douglass, as his wife gives an inapropos Lady MacBeth speech. DAN

Posted by: Dan Schneider at February 18, 2005 06:33 PM



























































































































































































































































































































































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