On Halloween 1997 I was on a team that streamed a Cure show live from Irving Plaza, but this is one Mike Leigh film that was never on my radar. Sounds like I need to cure that.
What a sad addendum there on these two actresses. I need to see this one again -- I love how nearly all of Leigh's films feel like we're just hanging out with his characters. And I love it when films use offscreen time as a device to show us how characters change or don't ... and trust the audience to do the work of understanding the scope of these changes. A current release in the theaters (PAST LIVES ) also does this so evocatively.
On Halloween 1997 I was on a team that streamed a Cure show live from Irving Plaza, but this is one Mike Leigh film that was never on my radar. Sounds like I need to cure that.
It was seeing The Cure in concert last weekend that got me thinking about this movie again. (Great show, by the way.)
It’s terrifying to realize that the first Cure album just celebrated its 44th birthday, and amazing that they still put on such a great show.
What a sad addendum there on these two actresses. I need to see this one again -- I love how nearly all of Leigh's films feel like we're just hanging out with his characters. And I love it when films use offscreen time as a device to show us how characters change or don't ... and trust the audience to do the work of understanding the scope of these changes. A current release in the theaters (PAST LIVES ) also does this so evocatively.