Apropos of Nothing

I've been meaning to post on a couple of movies for a while.

The first is Mutual Appreciation, directed by Andrew Bujalski. It's remarkably sensitive, registering emotional frequencies that most films miss, and true and generous and kind. And even better than his first feature, Funny Ha Ha, which got rave reviews last year--- two New York Times critics named it one of the 10 best films of 2005. Today's the last day you can buy a DVD, which the director will send you personally from Jamaica Plain; it's going to be officially released soon.

The second is Ingmar Bergman's six-episode series, Scenes from a Marriage, which I watched on the pretext of doing research for my 3L paper.



Each episode is about two people struggling to become with each other. It's hard to watch sometimes, just as marriages are hard:

Marianne: If only we could meet as the people we were meant to be and not as people trying to play the parts others have assigned us.

Johan: That’s impossible. We start putting on those masks as infants

Can't describe well, sorry. But it's stunning and beautiful. Rent it, and get the TV version, not the edited movie version.