Posted on 2007-07-24 16:43
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After finishing Christmas shopping, I ran to see "The Holiday " premiere with Frank in the pouring rain yesterday.
Do you like chocolate? Do you know that moment, even before you put it in your mouth? You can imagine that taste. You can feel that rich sweetness on your tongue, the smoothness going around your mouth . . .
The Holiday is a romantic comedy. You know what that means.
The movie is about two women who each have recently troubled with guy-problems (Diaz, Winslet). Amanda lives in California and Iris lives in England. Neither of these women have ever met before, but they both want to escape lovelorn predicaments for the holidays, so they talk online and decide to swap houses and automobiles for two weeks, so in other words Amanda would be staying at Iris's house in England and Iris would be staying at Amanda's house in California. Once they both reach their destinations they are both pretty bitter about men, but each of them soon meets different men in their lives who mean a lot to them and may make their holiday something to remember. The Holiday has good direction, a good script, good performances by the entire cast and good original music.
All four of the primary actors were excellent.
Cameron Diaz was surprisingly good as a romantic comedy lead. I had my doubts about her character in the beginning but she won me over, especially after Jude Law (who plays Kate Winslet's brother) appears.
Winslet was fabulous, as usual. Her scenes with Jack Black were good but it's her times with Eli Wallach (as the charming and oh-so-modest screen writer) that are most wonderful.
Law has a secret (actually three of them) that Diaz doesn't learn about right away. When she does find out, the story takes an interesting and sweet turn.
I was thoroughly entertained by this picture. It took a while to get going but the simultaneous stories and romances involving Winslet/Black and Diaz/Law were fun and funny.
2006。12。08