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I haven't seen much this weekend; bits & pieces of Christian Nyby's "The Thing from Another World" (1951) -I fell asleep during most of it, because I began watching right after lunch and I always get sleepy after eating...
Last night I went to the avant-premiere of "Love in the Time of Cholera" (2007) an interesting but flawed film based upon Gabriel García Márquez book. In my opinion one of the flaws was its multinational cast, which gave performances of uneven quality; actors from Brazil, USA, Italy, Spain, Puerto Rico, Colombia et al. Besides, there's something in the way the story is told and/or the pacing of the film that does not quite work either. What was interesting for me was that the film was projected in the open, literally "under the stars" and it was quite a thrilling experience. I had never expericenced something of the kind. And I hadn't gone to the cinema in months!
Today I watched Mitchell Leisen's "No Time For Love" (1943) a quite compelling sexy comedy starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray. Fred plays a very different kind of guy here: a no-nonsense Irish macho man over whom the sophisticated photographer deliciously (as always) portrayed by Madame Colbert, goes absolutely ga-ga, head over heels. There's a very interesting oneiric sequence in which Claudette dreams Fred's a kind of Superman who rescues her. Noteworthy performances by Ilka Chase as Claudette's sister and Richard Haydn, as one of her co-workers. Claudette looks specially pretty in this one. I liked it more than "The Egg & I", because it's more a-typical.