Movies, Mom & Me

1. Who's watched:  M & G (finally)
2. Mentions:  None
3. Commentary:  The truth is, if this movie hadn't come bundled with four others we wanted, we wouldn't own it. I know, stating this is probably blasphemy. I had never seen the movie all the way through until maybe a month ago. Although, when I mention the movie to my mother off the cable schedule, she expresses interest in it and often watches it, it's not one either of us yearns to so and, often as not, when it's on the cable schedule, in this house, Animal Planet trumps it.
       When we viewed this film the last (aforementioned) time, I remember Sidney Pollack, who introduced it as one of TCM's Essentials, then slipped into a blur of words raphsodizing Ingrid Bergman and her performance in this movie, nodding, as well, to his life long crush on Ms. Bergman. Anyway, from what he said I thought, "Oh, okay, well I'll watch the whooole thiiing and, if what he says about Ingrid Bergman's performance is true, I should really enjoy this. At the end of the movie I was thinking, well, I think men go crazy when they see Bergman on the screen and think her a better actor than she was. She was very good, obviously stellar, but not transcendental, like, say Streep or Kingsley.
       I'll probably be lynched by the Klassic Movie Klan before morning.

Labels: drama, mystery

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