Friday night ... and Savant's taking a vacation of sorts. Only two reviews tonight, and probably just that many before next Wednesday's newsletter. It's my first acknowledged break in about three years - so why do I feel guilty?
Fox's studio classics presentation of the Ingrid Bergman vehicle Inn of the Sixth Happiness is a beautiful copy of a handsome romantic adventure. An English maid breaks all the rules to become an untrained missionary in China, and discovers a whole new life for herself. It's a good, overachieving 'woman's film' from the late 50s.
MGM's Rhapsody in August is Akira Kurosawa's postscript to the atomic bombing of Japan, 45 years after the fact, when the ranks of first-person witnesses and survivors is just beginning to thin out. The approach is interesting - four children study their grandmother on her farm near Nagasaki, and then their own parents' attitudes toward the memory of bombing and their own American relatives. Very unusual. With Richard Gere in an odd role.
So, I think I'll be back on Tuesday with a couple more reviews ... consider this the slow week at DVD Savant, and perhaps dig into the Article Archive for something different to read ... ? Thanks, Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at July 25, 2003 11:13 PM