Letters to the Editor
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I saw one movie this year
That I absolutely adored and it was La Vie en Rose. I watched it at my house on demand, only because Marion Cotillard won the Oscar and I was curious about it. It got a poor review here at Salon by SZ (she and I are officially thru BTW, not like she cares of course; she's entitled to her opinion but it's useless to me). She wrote that she would have preferred a straight-up hollywood story to this messy, transporting, disjointed, inaccurate movie. It may have been all these things, but it was mesmerizing and I felt overwhelmed and transported into someone else's life, rather than feeling as if I were watching a slick re-enactment in period costume a la Walk the Line or Frieda. This movie got very little press and I have no idea where it was playing here in town, a large western coastal city. I have heard lots and lots about No Count and TWBB, 2 movies I care as much about as I do Semi-Pro, but so little about LVER, a movie that I would have loved to see in a theater. I watched Michael Clayton before that and I was like, not a bad story, pretty good performances. Then I watched this other movie and I had no words, which is what I want from a movie.