Comments | pargoletta: Thirty Days (Or Posts) Of Female Characters! Post 12

pargoletta

Thirty Days (Or Posts) Of Female Characters! Post 12

May 22, 2013 22:40

This is one of the questions I'm really excited about. I get to share not only one of my favorite characters, but one of my favorite movies ever with you.

( Favorite female character in a movie )

meme, female characters

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frozen_delight June 27 2013, 15:05:26 UTC

Oh, I really need to see that movie! I love Jennifer Ehle and your description of Valerie makes me think that it might be her best role yet. I like the idea that women can be strong women not just if they fight or deal with politics or whatever, but simply by being the centre and the heartbeat of a family. And that picture with her on the chair is one of the most gorgeous images of women I've ever seen. It's so real, so honest, so simple. And if I understand you correctly, it is the perfect mirror of her personality. So yes, I'm really intrigued - I'm definitely going to see that movie.

pargoletta June 27 2013, 17:50:55 UTC

Yes! Yes! Go find it! Not many people know about it, since it was mostly a Hungarian-Canadian co-production that only got limited arthouse release in the U.S. But it's entirely worth seeing. Its main advertising draw was that Ralph Fiennes was going to play three generations of the same family (Ignatz, Adam, and Ivan; you can tell them apart by their various facial hair), and he does a pretty good job at that -- all three men are different from each other, though you can tell they're related and have grown up under similar kinds of pressure. Because of this casting choice, the movie actually feels like a trilogy-in-one, with each generation of Ralph Fiennes having its own hour-long storyline defined by the Hungarian Political Event Of The Era (respectively: the end of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the Holocaust, and Communism ( ... )