04 Dec Waiting For The Men
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Its been so cold in London all week that the only place I could seek comfort and warmth was the cinema or the pub. So we went to see two movies this week. The first was Anton Corbijn‘s excellent The American, starring George Clooney. I’ve always been a fan of Clooney’s political stuff (Syriana being a favourite of mine) and this seemed like it might be a kind of Bourne-style globetrotting rampage. It was very different. Super slow and simmering with tension, it makes sense given Corbijn’s success as a photographer as each scene resembled a still image more than moving pictures. Clooney plays an assassin holed up in a quiet Italian town waiting for a bullet. In the mean time he has plenty of fun with the unfeasibly attractive Violente Placido. Yum.
Then last night we went to see another European masterpiece – Of Gods and Men – about a group of French monks in a monastery in Algeria under threat from the local Mujahideen bad men, also waiting for their time to come.
