While I will keep posting about nail polish, I've decided to share other things with you such as movies and books for example. Just so you know, I'm on holidays at the end of this week, and Minnie is taking me to London (yeessssss!!!) so I'm gonna prepare nail polish posts for when I'm gone, which is why I'll be more in blabbering mode until then :p.
So, on New Year's Eve, Minnie and I went to the cinema: none of us is very much the kind to do a big party, and anyway Super MD had yet another crazy week at work, so we wanted a quiet nice evening. It's actually very nice to go to the cinema on NYE, there's a very special atmosphere!
We went to see Hugo Cabret, just because we had liked the aesthetics of the poster and not really knowing what to expect, and we were enchanted!
It's my first time writing a movie review so I'm not sure how to do it, hopefully I won't spoil anything and give you some wish to go and see it :)
Hugo Cabret is a young orphan boy who lives clandestinely in the Parisian station Gare de Lyon in the 1930s, winding up the clocks as his uncle taught him to do before disappearing. But his real work is elsewhere, as he tries to collect pieces to fix a writing automaton, the only thing he has left from his father. Will he find all the missing pieces? More importantly, will he find the special heart-shaped key that will wind the automaton up, enabling him to write again? And if yes, what message will it give to the little boy?
I didn't see it in 3D, the choice was between 3D and original version, you can guess which option we went for, but while some views would indeed look amazing in 3D, I didn't find the movie was lacking something in 2D.
I will say that if you liked Chocolat, you'll probably love this movie. It has this same quality of having no real boundary between reality and fairy-tale, with a whole crew of secondary characters on the edge of caricature that are very touching. The fact that they're all played by familiar faces sur as Jude Law, Sacha Baron Cohen, Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour, Helen McCrory (the last three fresh out of Harry Potter!!) and Sir Christopher Lee (as the nice old librarian, he's just fantastic, as always) is a wonderful bonus! Of course, the main actors are equally up to the task: the two kids are amazing and Ben Kingsley goes from scary old men to magician with an incredible talent and credibility. Add to this that the movie is a beautiful tribute to one of the greatest magicians of the history of cinema and if you still don't feel like running to the nearest theatre, I don't know what I can do for you!!
Bad news of the day: my computer has decided it wouldn't start today, so I'm gonna try to prepare a lot of articles from Minnie's computer, but if you see me disappear, blame it on modern technology!!
