melancholyNow how did I fail to make the connection with Strictly Ballroom? Probably because I remember the story from that film more than the camera-work or the music. But in retrospect it's clearly of the same lineage - the crew differences probably account for the rest. In fact simply the change in cinematographer could account for it.
I'm trying at the moment to decide if Romeo + Juliet might not have been more to my liking if Leonard DiCaprio and Claire Danes had been replaced by actors as strong as Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman.
Oh, but what did I think of the movie? Ah, you should know better by now than to talk to me about love, especially stories about the redemptive nature of love, the imperative nature of love, or the ubiquity, tragic nobility, or universality of love.
I will say it was gorgeous, and I will say I both liked it and enjoyed it more than I expected. Mr. Luhrmann does provide the spectacular.
"It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?"
