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([personal profile] ellen_datlow Feb. 22nd, 2010 04:28 pm)
Caught up on DVD movies, some Angel, and movies in theaters.

Friday night Swimming Pool with Charlotte Rampling as a relatively successful yet insecure and tightly wound British mystery writer, whose long term publisher (and it is hinted, lover)lets her stay in his French vacation house in order to get inspiration for her next novel. After a few peaceful, idyllic days, the publisher's French, illegitimate daughter moves in, plays loud music, lays about the swimming pool, and brings home a string of men with whom she has loud unrestrained sex. The tension between the two woman increases and their relationship evolves into an emotional kind of playing chicken. The ending is intriguing. I don't want to say more but it sent me to imdb to see what other viewers thought of it.

Saturday a friend came to NYC from out of town and we saw the new Roman Polanski (which I forgot was by him till the credits), Ghost Writer with Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan in a really well done political thriller. Good show. Saturday night (after Helen left town( I watched I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, totally synchronistically with Charlotte Rampling and from 2003 (as was Swimming Pool. She's not the main character in this one -directed by Mike Hodge). Clive Owen plays a gang leader who left London suddenly several years before the movie begins. He returns when his brother commits suicide and investigating his old haunts to try to find out why the brother would do that...disturbing the thugs he left behind (they think he may be trying to horn back into the biz). Another very mysterious ending that had be checking out responses on ibdb. Another very good movie.

Sunday I finally saw Avatar and yes, it's pretty gorgeous to look at, enjoyable, (too long), and has the plot of Dancing with Wolves. As Rick Bowes remarked, they could have easily used an African American or Asian American in the role of Jake and one accusation (the white man saving the day for the natives) would have been kiboshed in one fell swoop --not only that, but casting the character as anything other than white would have brought more depth to the whole movie.

Today I went to the dentist to have a filling that was not solidly on, replaced. I grew up with no fear of the dentist for my childhood and teenage years--because I never had cavities. I did have braces for years and years and years. It wasn't until my twenties that I discovered gum problems and the House of Pain.

My current dentist works across the street from Grand Central Station, which just happens to have a wonderful food market on the main floor--which also just happens to have a Murray's Cheese store. There I discovered something that might almost have made the visit to the dentist worth it: on sale was something called Harvest Song's Tea Rose Petal Preserve, made in Armenia. I tried some on fresh rye bread and it was ok. Then I tried it on Ritz crackers (once my numbness passed)and ohmigod. Ecstasy. The combo of sweet and salt is perfect. The preserves are brownish and the tea rose petals are in little bits and pieces. This stuff is gold.
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