Going to the cinema is popular in France and there are cinemas in most towns of any size - certainly towns here that are much smaller than Fleet have thriving cinemas. So on Saturday we went to see La Taupe (The Mole) - this is released in the UK as "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy ..." and has received Oscar nominations including one for Gary Oldman. It's been released in France for about three weeks but the early evening screening we went to was still full. As I've written previously the challenge for us in finding films is to search for one in VOSTF (version originale - sous-titres francaises) and this means we get the soundtrack in English and the words in French - useful for improving my knowledge of some, shall we say, colloquial words!
The film was released in the UK in September but only made it to France in February this year, probably as a result of its Oscar nominations. Great film, highly recommended and a strong performance from Gary Oldman at George Smiley - it feels like George Clooney's year for best actor this year but Oldman's performance could run him close.
Mark Kermode's review is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39IqIpXJvFk
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About Me
- Tim Claridge
- Sharing time between Southampton and Noyal-Muzillac in southern Brittany. Sports coach, gardener, hockey player, cyclist and traveller. I studied an MA in Management and Organisational Dynamics at Essex University in 2016-17. Formerly an Operations Manager with NEC Technologies (UK) Ltd.
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