Love@Magic (PART 1 OF 3)
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What a gorgeous autumn day it is!
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From: denman@infoseek.jp
To: diane705@yahoo.ca
cc: barclay1720@aol.com
Date: Thur., September 4, 2014 7:04 PM
Pacific Daylight Saving Time
Hi Diane,
What a gorgeous autumn day it is!
Have you basked in the sun lately while walking or jogging in Stanley Park?
...taking a stroll along one of the trails?
I'm writing an article like hell in the central library as usual.
What a pity!
By the way, thank you for your opinion on the "Tyrannosauer."
Yes, yes, yes...
The good-for-nothing guy was going to go over and kill the husband (likely scenario, of course) but you didn't suspect her.
Me, neither.
In the real life, however, she wouldn't do the killing, I suppose.
She isn't such a woman, that is, the heroine is a good-natured woman just like you, Diane.
You wouldn't kill any husband, would you?---even if he is a good-for-nothing violent man.
The movie is a fictional story, I believe.
Her killing is a big surprise, but that makes me feel betrayed by the director.
Although some say that truth is stranger than fiction, the movie should be realistic.
In any case, I've just finished my article.
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■"Tyrannosauer"
In the article, I picked up one particular movie among 594 films I've watched so far.
It is called "The Scent of Green Papaya," which I viewed a dozen years ago at the Vancouver Film Festival.
You might have watched it, too.
That is my hunch.
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"The Scent of Green Papaya" is a 1993 Vietnamese-language film produced in France by Lazennec Production, directed by Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung.
The film won the Caméra d'Or prize at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for the 1993 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Although set in Vietnam, the film was shot entirely on a soundstage in Boulogne, France.
The musical score, both original material and well-known classical music pieces, creates the synaesthetic illusion of scent throughout the film.
In some ways, the music serves a metaphor for scent, with rapid transitions and modulations signaling abrupt emotional changes, just as occurs when a scent, invisible to the eye, eventually penetrates a person's consciousness and a message is transmitted to the brain.
This is a poetic rendering of Mui's love story.
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I love Debussy's "Clair de lune" or "moonlight" which is the film's background music in the trailer.
And I enjoyed the movie to the hilt even though this was the second time to watch it.
I'm pretty sure you love it, too.
It's worthwhile viewing the film twice even if you might have watched it before.
...hope you'll enjoy it as well as my article.
Your smiling Bohemian, Kato
with a lot of love as always
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Subj:I enjoyed the delightful movie!
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From: diane@vancouver.ca
To: barclay1720@aol.com
Date: Fri., September 5, 2014 4:43 PM
Pacific Daylight Saving Time
Hi Kato,
Nice to hear from you and thanks so much for the review on the film.
I'll look at it on Monday when I return from my weekend reveries.
I do recall seeing "The Scent of Green Papaya" years ago, but can't remember it clearly at all.
Maybe I'll reserve it one of these days, and thanks for the recommendation.
I just returned from a matinee at International Village of Woody Allen's latest "Magic in the Moonlight."
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I must say it was delightful.
The cinematography is superb, so is the witty dialogue (Colin Firth shines in this one).
And the romance, the magical music of the late 1920's, all came together to provide a most pleasurable romantic comedy, with a bit of substance underlying the whole affair.
Quite a surprise ending as well.
It didn't hurt that it took place in the lovely Cote d'Azur, where my boyfriend and I just returned from visiting my brother in June.
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We really enjoyed this movie ... when we arrived at the theatre we were the only two there.
How can they keep these theatres profitable? Egads.
Another couple came later and sat behind us, but it was just the four of us in this huge theater.
Unbelievable!
It is Friday afternoon, nice day---no rain to keep folks home.
It's just so unbelievable!
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... guess you're looking forward to the upcoming VIFF (me, too!).
I've already picked out 10 must-sees and the guide isn't even out yet.
... looks like it's going to be a fantastic year.
... hope to see you at the some of the films, kiddo.
Have a good weekend, Kato
We've got tickets to "The Tempest" at Bard-on-the-Beach tomorrow afternoon with our breakfast group.
Reviews have been positive and the weather is expected to be sunny and warm.
So we're all excited.
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Love, Diane ~
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