Outings

Post-Oscar's sees the inevitable glut of decent films at the cinema.  I went to see the fabulous Ms Streep in Iron Lady.  And yes, she was extremely good.  It was very much the UK political equivalent of J. Edgar.  I was a bit concerned for a wee while as Ms Streep was sounding a bit like an English version of her Julia Powell character in Julie & Julia but as the character developed into the Maggie T we all know and love (<g>) the voice deepened into the dulcet tones of the Baroness.  A good film, an Oscar well-deserved I feel, unlike the farcical accolade awarded to Ms Portman in 2011!

The Iron Lady Poster

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol was a wonderful piece of nonsense that allowed Sarah and I to indulge in the expat hobby of 'been there' as we recognised a bunch of places where we had either lived or visited.  I won't bore you with the 'plot' but Tom Cruise, with a bit of help from his chums, saves the world - again!  Bless him.

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol Poster 

Somewhat miffed that The Artist has already been and gone!!!  Very huffy about that but planning to see The Descendants next week and I think The Hunger Games might warrant a viewing.  Any film with characters such as Effie Trinket and Haymitch Abernathy has got to be worth a go <g>

On a slightly more cultural front Mark and I went to see Don Juan at the Musikhuset in Esbjerg.  It was a pretty good production, but I did not like the way the ending was portrayed however I am really not an expert.  Don Juan is on the syllabus of the course I am studying so it was interesting to see it 'live'; Mark managed to stay awake for about 1/3 of the evening ;-).





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  1. Yay, Mark! Clearly performance enhancing drugs were being used!!!!!

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