A personal blog, named in honor of the novel Petticoat Government by a favorite author, Emma Orczy. The novel is about a fictional woman, Lydie d'Aumont, who attempts to inject some fairness and good governance into the court of France's Louis XVth despite the corruption and selfishness there.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
The Holiday
We just watched The Holiday with Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Jack Black, and Cameron Diaz. The warning on the cover about "strong language" isn't just empty words. And neither is the warning about sexual situations, so be cautious. I loved Kate Winslet's character (she is super nice to a sweet old man in the house next door to where she vacations), but Cameron Diaz's character was so selfish. It's hard to see what Jude Law's character can have really seen in her (they spend two drunken nights together and then one sober day and evening, and suddenly he's utterly in love with her). If you're curious about the movie, see it for Kate Winslet's character. She really is a nice, complex person, and (grrr, even though I hated Titanic) Kate Winslet does a great job playing her.
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