Passionada
Aug. 13th, 2003 12:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidLast night I went to a free screening of Passionada, a new movie filmed in New Bedford, which will hit theaters this weekend in full release. It was at the Kendall, and it was mostly full, but not completely. I sat and crocheted for a while, until the conversation behind me turned to math problems, and I just couldn't help but point out there was an easier way to solve the question than the two approaches already mentioned.
Instead of previews, there was a woman with announcements, talking about how to get parking validated, and requesting that everyone there tell all their friends about the movie, lest it get swept out of theaters after the first weekend. After much reiteration, plus mention of fado music being locally available, the movie finally started.
It's a romantic comedy, so the outcome is not in question, just the path to get there. It's a fun flick, with a bunch of scenes that had the audience cracking up. Some of that was the script, some of it in screen shots (I think this gets the award for the Most Creative Use of Fish).
There were a lot of things I liked, in addition to it being locally filmed. It's cool that it's a bit bilingual (the Portugese is subtitled). Food is central, which is always appreciated, especially when it leads to hot kissing scenes. The fado music was lovely, not something I'd heard before. There's a great street fair dancing scene. The kid is spunky.
However, there were some things I didn't care for. There were times that the editing was not what I would've chosen, which is not something I usually notice in movies. And I found myself having to suspend belief just a bit more than I should for this kind of fluff, too. I liked the characters, but I wasn't always convinced of their changes.
On the whole, though, a fun time.
There were freebies when we left: a card with a recipe on it (paella, not so useful for me, and I found a typo in the first moments of looking at it. I think even the nonkosher people I know would refuse to use prok in their food...), lemon-lime Kashi bars, copies of Weight Watcher magazine. I'd walked, and preferred to have my hands free, so didn't take the latter two.
Instead of previews, there was a woman with announcements, talking about how to get parking validated, and requesting that everyone there tell all their friends about the movie, lest it get swept out of theaters after the first weekend. After much reiteration, plus mention of fado music being locally available, the movie finally started.
It's a romantic comedy, so the outcome is not in question, just the path to get there. It's a fun flick, with a bunch of scenes that had the audience cracking up. Some of that was the script, some of it in screen shots (I think this gets the award for the Most Creative Use of Fish).
There were a lot of things I liked, in addition to it being locally filmed. It's cool that it's a bit bilingual (the Portugese is subtitled). Food is central, which is always appreciated, especially when it leads to hot kissing scenes. The fado music was lovely, not something I'd heard before. There's a great street fair dancing scene. The kid is spunky.
However, there were some things I didn't care for. There were times that the editing was not what I would've chosen, which is not something I usually notice in movies. And I found myself having to suspend belief just a bit more than I should for this kind of fluff, too. I liked the characters, but I wasn't always convinced of their changes.
On the whole, though, a fun time.
There were freebies when we left: a card with a recipe on it (paella, not so useful for me, and I found a typo in the first moments of looking at it. I think even the nonkosher people I know would refuse to use prok in their food...), lemon-lime Kashi bars, copies of Weight Watcher magazine. I'd walked, and preferred to have my hands free, so didn't take the latter two.
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