Also, for how long has Surrey been located in the Cotswolds?
We both burst out laughing at the first sight of her cottage, it looked like something off a selection box. Also, how would someone doing her job be able to afford somewhere like that, not to mention live that far outside of central London. (I wonder if the L.A. stuff jarred as badly to a local?)
I wished the dinner party scene with Eli's friends had been longer - and though the rest of it was pretty dire
That did seem to be the stuff with which the writer was really most at ease. I'm sure it would have sustained its own film, actually. The problem with many of the other scenes was that they went on too long: both break-up scenes in particular (wince, wince). We both wanted Eli to have come over to England to be at the party at the end.
I really wish someone would do something similar for female adolescence, with the same level of focus on something other than their love lives
And a 1980s setting would be perfect for it too.
it probably wouldn't get the simultaneous live performance and major film release
Not unless Alan Bennett wrote it, and that's not likely. I also grumped about the sole female character, although Isla Blair's delivery of that line about not hitherto being permitted an inner voice was sublime - she really subverted it, doing it as if she had been off elsewhere doing things of vast and much greater importance, but that circumstances have forced her to give these people her attention for a little while. Perhaps she was off in the all-female version of the play.
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Date: 2007-01-08 04:01 pm (UTC)We both burst out laughing at the first sight of her cottage, it looked like something off a selection box. Also, how would someone doing her job be able to afford somewhere like that, not to mention live that far outside of central London. (I wonder if the L.A. stuff jarred as badly to a local?)
I wished the dinner party scene with Eli's friends had been longer - and though the rest of it was pretty dire
That did seem to be the stuff with which the writer was really most at ease. I'm sure it would have sustained its own film, actually. The problem with many of the other scenes was that they went on too long: both break-up scenes in particular (wince, wince). We both wanted Eli to have come over to England to be at the party at the end.
I really wish someone would do something similar for female adolescence, with the same level of focus on something other than their love lives
And a 1980s setting would be perfect for it too.
it probably wouldn't get the simultaneous live performance and major film release
Not unless Alan Bennett wrote it, and that's not likely. I also grumped about the sole female character, although Isla Blair's delivery of that line about not hitherto being permitted an inner voice was sublime - she really subverted it, doing it as if she had been off elsewhere doing things of vast and much greater importance, but that circumstances have forced her to give these people her attention for a little while. Perhaps she was off in the all-female version of the play.