This. Is. An AMBULANCE!
This movie sounds pretty cool, and I must also see this sometime soon.
I also really want to see this I remember seeing posters for it all over Italy and thinking it looked amazing - I'm kind of glad I didn't see it at the time though, I'm sure I'll apppreciate it a whole lot more now that I'm a *little* more mature and not quite so *cough*obsessed*cough* with Ralph Fiennes anymore (not that I am entirely at fault - remember how for awhile there he had a film out, it seemed, every month? And for some reason my aunt was being nice and taking me to the Nova every week...but maybe that was because she rather fancied him as well - there's just something so infinitely watchable about the man. He's got the same vibe for me that Viggo does - something excruciatingly intense and quiet and clever. It's all rather chilling, in a lovely sort of a way.)
I'm still trying to track this down. I've wanted it for so long, but all that (used) to be available in Australia was some horrible video version with the sides of the picture cut off because they didn't do it widescreen. Now that I have a sooper-dooper multi-region dvd player (chocolaterabbit and pop_pony, you rule!) I might be able to order it from the UK - because it really is an incredible adaptation. I remember seeing it a few years ago (I must have been too young and jaded to watch it when it first came out) anyway, I'm pretty sure it was winter, and I was "ill" - so I was just wrapped up with come cinnamon cocoa watching Sunday Afternoon ABC and it came on. Ouf. It was my introduction to David Morrisey (who knocks me out everytime I see him in something - he plays the absolutely psychotic school-principal in this) and possibly my first introduction to Paul McGann (though I have a vague feeling I must have seen him in the Dr Who movie some years before...) The lovely, always oddly sickly looking, Steven Mackintosh is also in it, as is the beautiful Keeley Hawes (of Spooks and Tipping the Velvet fame), both spectacular as always - seriously, this show was nearly perfect in every way - the casting, the costumes, the near-perfectly-faithful storyline (in fact, I can't say I didn't prefer this trimmed version) It just looked so luscious - but still realistic. I mean, when it was meant to be grimy and scary it was grimy and scary - perhaps in that heightened realism sort of a way, but never unbelievably so. Guh, I just love it. Oh, Timothy Spall was also in it, which reminds me to also track down this and this - did anyone catch these when they were on tv a year or so ago? Truly mindblowing - as moving as they were though, I don't know how well they'd stand up to repeat viewings... so much of their charm was in their mystery and immediacy. I'd be a little afraid of spoiling the enchanting memories... but if you haven't seen them, definately try to find them.
Alright, just one more. I saw the last fifteen minutes of this and thought it looked really charming (besides, no Gwyneth, score! I totally didn't realise it was Kate Beckinsale though - she looks so different without the latex bodysuit) Mark Strong looked awesome as Mr. Knightley, so I'll have to try and find this after I've finished reading the book. Which I should be doing right now...
I also really want to see this I remember seeing posters for it all over Italy and thinking it looked amazing - I'm kind of glad I didn't see it at the time though, I'm sure I'll apppreciate it a whole lot more now that I'm a *little* more mature and not quite so *cough*obsessed*cough* with Ralph Fiennes anymore (not that I am entirely at fault - remember how for awhile there he had a film out, it seemed, every month? And for some reason my aunt was being nice and taking me to the Nova every week...but maybe that was because she rather fancied him as well - there's just something so infinitely watchable about the man. He's got the same vibe for me that Viggo does - something excruciatingly intense and quiet and clever. It's all rather chilling, in a lovely sort of a way.)
I'm still trying to track this down. I've wanted it for so long, but all that (used) to be available in Australia was some horrible video version with the sides of the picture cut off because they didn't do it widescreen. Now that I have a sooper-dooper multi-region dvd player (chocolaterabbit and pop_pony, you rule!) I might be able to order it from the UK - because it really is an incredible adaptation. I remember seeing it a few years ago (I must have been too young and jaded to watch it when it first came out) anyway, I'm pretty sure it was winter, and I was "ill" - so I was just wrapped up with come cinnamon cocoa watching Sunday Afternoon ABC and it came on. Ouf. It was my introduction to David Morrisey (who knocks me out everytime I see him in something - he plays the absolutely psychotic school-principal in this) and possibly my first introduction to Paul McGann (though I have a vague feeling I must have seen him in the Dr Who movie some years before...) The lovely, always oddly sickly looking, Steven Mackintosh is also in it, as is the beautiful Keeley Hawes (of Spooks and Tipping the Velvet fame), both spectacular as always - seriously, this show was nearly perfect in every way - the casting, the costumes, the near-perfectly-faithful storyline (in fact, I can't say I didn't prefer this trimmed version) It just looked so luscious - but still realistic. I mean, when it was meant to be grimy and scary it was grimy and scary - perhaps in that heightened realism sort of a way, but never unbelievably so. Guh, I just love it. Oh, Timothy Spall was also in it, which reminds me to also track down this and this - did anyone catch these when they were on tv a year or so ago? Truly mindblowing - as moving as they were though, I don't know how well they'd stand up to repeat viewings... so much of their charm was in their mystery and immediacy. I'd be a little afraid of spoiling the enchanting memories... but if you haven't seen them, definately try to find them.
Alright, just one more. I saw the last fifteen minutes of this and thought it looked really charming (besides, no Gwyneth, score! I totally didn't realise it was Kate Beckinsale though - she looks so different without the latex bodysuit) Mark Strong looked awesome as Mr. Knightley, so I'll have to try and find this after I've finished reading the book. Which I should be doing right now...