It's de-lovely

[xela]

I just saw "De-Lovely", and loved it. I laughed. There were scenes where I'm sure a larger audience would have clapped (I saw it in a multiplex with maybe 25 other people scattered around the room — you don't get critical mass in a group like that, even if someone does have the nerve to be the first one to start clapping.) And at the end, I cried.

It's in some ways a sweet, old-fashioned biopic, like "The Glenn Miller Story", but without the need that era felt to make such films hagiographies. I'm not going to try to write a cogent review;there's a too long, too detailed, but overall fair review at gaytoday.com if you want one of those. I'll just say this: If you have a sentimental bone in your body, you'll love this movie. If you appreciate beautiful songs beautifully performed, you'll love it even more..

Comments

[kareila]

My mom said that she liked it "except for the whole gay thing". Bah.

What was funny, though, was that she and her cousin were automatically given a senior discount they didn't qualify for. When they got inside, they realized they were the youngest people there. (Think low 50s...)

There really is a generation gap here I think, with the exception of a few musicAL enthusiasts, which I do not count myself among - although certainly I know people my age who are, mostly from the MIT crowd. *shrug*

[yakshaver.livejournal.com]

I think you'd like the movie. And I'm willing to bet, musically knowledgable as you are, there are Cole Porter songs you know and like, that you don't know are Cole Porter songs. I was certainly going "oh, that's one of his?" a lot. And the performances: Natalie Cole, Elvis Costello, and Alanis Morissette all give great performances, of course, but if I had to pick just one stand-out, it would by Cheryl Crow's.