I've heard about Park Chan Wook's The Handmaiden (adapted liberally from Sarah Water's Fingersmith apparently) being gorgeous and lurid and kind of bonkers, but nobody told me how funny it was! I was in stitches throughout the film. It was like 2 1/2 hour-long Gothic lesbian comedy on drugs. A+++, will watch again! I haven't read the Waters novel but I assume the more... outre elements in the film were Park's invention.
Seconding all of this. I imagine there are many Buffistas who will love
The Handmaiden.
I'm reading the novel now so I will let you know how they compare.
Excitingly Madina Nalwanga is a local lass who went to the open auditions at the National Theatre, so yay for Ugandan girls playing Ugandan girls (even if they had to film a lot of the movie in SA).
I have just watched "What We Do In The Shadows" and it was SUPER SUPER DELIGHTFUL. I know I am late to this party but OMG! So precious!
"We're werewolves not swear wolves" is a favorite phrase at my house.
Excitingly Madina Nalwanga is a local lass who went to the open auditions at the National Theatre, so yay for Ugandan girls playing Ugandan girls (even if they had to film a lot of the movie in SA).
Oh, did they? Well, it was still great, and she was marvelous. I hope she has a great career in front of her.
Also, it's marvelous to see your pixels, Fay!
Megan, I will have to check that out. I love Waters, and have read Fingersmith several times -- I'm so curious now to see what the outre aspects are, because the novel is Victorian lesbian melodrama at its best!
DONALD GLOVER AS YOUNG LANDO IN THE HAN SOLO MOVIE! I ACCEPT ITS EXISTENCE NOW!
That is really truly happening? OMG, I am so happy to get this news!
HOLY SHITBALLS *runs around flailing*
I'd heard rumours but dismissed it as a wishful thinking!
I am watching Deliverance for the first time. What in the heck is Burt Reynolds wearing ????