Saw a wonderful movie last night. It's only showing around here for a few more days and in just one theater and I almost didn't notice it. Washington is horrible for foreign and arthouse films. You'd think they would be easy to find in such a world capitol but most of the theaters that show stuff like that have shut down over the last few years, they just want to show the big hollywood blockbusters. Anyway...... saw "Ladies in Lavender" starring Judith Dench and Maggie Smith. And the male lead was the young actor from another favorite of mine, "Goodbye Lenin". This is a great film, a little bit sad and wistful, a little bit funny, and shot in drop dead gorgeous countryside in Cornwall. It's the story of two older sisters living on the coast who find a young foreign musician washed up on the beach one morning. The actress who plays their housekeeper almost steals the show, it's worth it almost just to watch her scenes. Any of you reading this locally, it's showing at the theater in old town Greenbelt thru Thursday.
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We have an "arts" theatre here in town - I'll have to watch for it. I, too, love those ladies!
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