Movie Review: Easy Virtue
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I've been on the waiting list at the library for this for a couple months, ever since my last 'I'm in love with Colin Firth' day. Finally it came. But I didn't know what to do. I wanted to watch it, but the Twins game was starting in an hour. Oh well. I decided to watch half while I ate my supper, then turn it off and turn the game on.Only I didn't. Cuz the movie was good and I didn't want to have to wait to see the rest.
It takes place in the 1920s. Larita is an American race car driver, who marries John, an Englishman from a good old-fashioned snooty English family. His mother is horrified, and makes life miserable for her, and then it becomes a matter of whether or not they can make this work.
The casting is good, and the four leads (Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, and Kristin Scott Thomas) do superb jobs. Jessica Biel and Ben Barnes have opportunities to show off their vocal talent periodically throughout the movie, and leave you craving more. The costuming is fun, and the location beautiful.
The one problem with it is that it is part comedy, part drama, and just doesn't get the balance quite right. The funny parts are humorous, and the dramatic parts well done, they just don't quite make sense together.
Overall I enjoyed it. (Though my first thought upon seeing the cast was that I would be very disappointed if I were Jessica Biel and had to be married to Ben Barnes instead of Colin Firth. Not that Ben Barnes is bad, mind you, but he's not Colin Firth.) I plan on watching it again before I return it (probably with my mother, seeing as she caught the last 15 minutes and thought it was good). I recommend it.posted by melilotnfosco | 10:13 PM
10 Comments:
actually, i think my last 'i'm in love with colin firth' day was when i visited chelleybutton. i was on the waiting list before that.
Wow, I just assumed Colin Firth would be the snooty Englishman! Weird that he's not! Also, I've never heard of this movie. Now I kinda want to see it.
Oh, and I feel very special that I was the inspiration (sort of) for TWO of your posts tonight! :D
he was ben barnes' dad. crazy thought.
and you should feel special, cuz you are :)
a race car driver before danica? oh my. who would have thought.
was biel believable in that era? because when i saw her in that one magician movie that was a wannabe "prestige" (i can't remember the name of it), i just really didn't think she looked like a 19th century hungarian aristocrat. i thought she'd look more fitting as a 19th century woman in the american west.
kristin scott thomas annoys me, but i don't know why, because i don't think i've actually seen her in anything.
biel was believable in that era. maybe she just looks too american.
(and the movie was 'the illusionist' and you never told me if it was any good.)
and i can't say i've ever thought anything of kristin scott thomas, but she was good in this.
it was fine, but the prestige was definitely better.
alright, after watching it a second time, i'm going to take back the 'superb' for jessica biel. she was good, but not outstanding.
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