Restful Weekend

A much more restful weekend than usual, which was really nice.

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On Saturday night Amanda and I went and saw The Artist (a French film, which actually played in Paris months ago but has come back after it's success in America).

I really liked it. It's pretty cool to see a real silent film made today! But Amanda got bored half way through, and because she didn't love either of the lead actors, she wanted to kill them. I didn't quite love either of them either, although the male lead Jean Dujardin was wonderfully charming. I wish they'd played a bit more with the form though. My favorite moments were when he dreamt that the world around him now had sound, but not him. And when he was drunk and saw a mini version of him with a bunch of indians.

We also watched Taxi Driver when we got home. Which was totally different to what I thought it was going to be. The psychological twist was particularly jarring. But De Niro was superb. Dark and simple. At times he wasn't really acting. Just speaking the text. I liked it a lot.

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Reading The Girl Who Played With Fire at the moment. It's getting really exciting!