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Post by tabbylvr77 on Sept 25, 2005 15:33:52 GMT -5
Hello everyone! I just recently got the movie My House in Umbria and I totally LOVE IT!! It was very intrieging and delightful! At first, though, I didn't get why she was flirting with Mr. Riverbanks or whatever his name was..?? I was like.. Is she trying to trick him into keeping Aimee there or is she just making fun of him?? But then, I listened to the audio commentary by the director and another guy and I learned that she was actually flirting with him cuz she liked him!! I was like.. WHAT?? But anyways, I totally love that movie and Dame Maggie Smith was totally superb!! What does everyone else think?? I wanna know!! Thanks! Rae  |
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Post by ArabellaFiggs on Sept 25, 2005 18:27:14 GMT -5
My sister has it also on dvd and I love the movie to.
Emily very sweet person and that bug men is ...grrrr...grrrr. Commentates Irritates
Maggie Smith is wonderful in that movie.
It's a movie which will never be bored.
hugs Jo
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Post by Alesia on Sept 25, 2005 21:53:06 GMT -5
That's kind of why I liked the movie. It has soo many layers.
I think Emily liked the bug guy because he was different then the men she had known in her life. She obviously had a checkered past full of less then good men. The bug guy, at least appeared, normal. I wanted to see more of her and the policeman. Her character, like all of the characters in the piece, was somewhat tragic.
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Post by Herzele on Sept 26, 2005 16:49:24 GMT -5
I LOVE that movie ... It's so sad, but thankfully it ends well ... At least as far as we know ... And Maggie's performance - like always - is superb !!!
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Post by BlazeFourPaws on Sept 27, 2005 15:39:27 GMT -5
I love the movie as well I need to buy a copy so my friend doesnt kill me for borrowing hers. I love flirtacious Dame.
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Post by foci on Sept 28, 2005 13:31:02 GMT -5
Hah, finally, after a month of searching I bought the DVD of My house in Umbria today. I swear I managed to track down the only copy in the country. Hopefully, I'll be able to watch it soon, sounds like a great movie.
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Post by foci on Oct 15, 2005 17:49:42 GMT -5
Hah, finally I was able to watch the movie. It was great and had so many layers. I watched it two weeks ago and I'm still pondering the plot and characters, that's so rare nowadays (or I pick bad movies, who knows).
My sister sat down to watch it with me halfway and after 5 minutes she was like "Wow, Dame Maggie Smith is superb!" and she was glued to the screen until The End.
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Post by Sensiblyquirky on Oct 16, 2005 0:51:52 GMT -5
Though attemtped thwarts were made at my wish to get this dvd tonight I was finally able to find it at Best Buy, and naturally set all my school work aside to watch. Maggie Smith was outstanding, no surprise, and the story was just so tragic.
For me I think part of her flirtations with Riverbanks were based on what Alesia mentioned being his supposed difference from the other men in her life. However I would argue, in one of the sadest scenes, that really that wasn't the case. Yes he was not an overly wretched person, but he looked down upon her and mocked her as I imagine most of the other men in her life had done as well.
But I also think the attraction was part of the romantic sentiments she longed to become her reality: romantic in a broader sense, not just the focus on love between a man and a woman. Emily wrote the romance she never had, and she was truely happy with the motley crew she invited into her home. Then Riverbanks arrives, and I believe she has two choices: the romance or the reality. In character she chooses the romance, perhaps in a blinded belief that he would remain and so would Aimee. In short the happiness would be expounded upon rather than removed.
Perhaps I'm way off base, but those are my two cents.
Christy
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Post by foci on Oct 16, 2005 10:18:36 GMT -5
Thanks for your post Christy, you strenghtened some of the impressions I had after watching the movie.
Moving onto a completely different aspect of the fic: I could hardly stop smiling, when Emily explained how she tries to think up names and stories for people whom she meets. LOL I always do that.
On one strange occasion, I turned out to be completely right. There was a small blonde girl in our neighbourhood who was always walked to school by her grandmother. I imagined that her mother had died when she was just a baby and that her father worked abroad to earn enough money for all of them. Strangely enough, one day I stood next to them on the bus when they met a lady, who asked about the girl's mum. The next second, the girl was telling her the very things I just cited above.
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Post by Sensiblyquirky on Oct 16, 2005 10:27:47 GMT -5
I do that as well, Anne. Sometimes I'm right and sometimes I'm wrong. I remember an art professor I had once: she dressed to the nines, spoke excellent french, had traveled so much so the life I fashioned for her was one a wealthy one. I pictured her married to an older gentleman, with no children. Alas she drove a mini-van, and had three kids. I was so wrong, and highly disappointed when I was!
I have a history professor this year, and I picture him being slightly out of the social setting and little uncomfortable. Maybe he was picked on as a child...I wonder if I'm right.
Christy
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Post by foci on Oct 16, 2005 16:28:12 GMT -5
There is something about Art professors I guess. We had a fascinating Art teacher in highschool. He dressed very pecularly (later I learned that he was very poor and dressed from charity and second-hand shops), and generally speaking he was walking about ten feet over the ground all the time. Everyone thought he was a middle-aged bachelor, because we couldn't imagine he was up to handling the administrative part of a marriage or even notice a woman who wasn't dressed up as a painting. Imagine our shock when our head of class told us that the Art teacher was happily married and had three (!!!) kids. I couldn't get over the shock until this very day. LOL
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Post by harmonydumbledore on Feb 18, 2008 21:00:35 GMT -5
I've seen this on HBO and taped it. It is tragic but with a happy ending. I don't really like the bug professor, he thinks everyone is unworthy, and he play with bugs! I hate the phone conversations when he and is wife is making fun of Emily. I think she is a great character. One that has had a troubled and dark past, but has risen above it and become a ratheer wealthy person. I love watching Emily and Amiee together. They are so cute. Once again Maggie has superbly hit one out of the park. I wish she was one of my Grannys!
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Post by furandfeathers on Feb 18, 2008 22:44:47 GMT -5
I absolutely love this movie...I've watched it so many times! Has anyone ever read the book? If you haven't you should definitely find it. It's just gorgeous...infinitely more tragic than the film, but perfectly beautiful. I've read it several times, and like the film it has so many layers that you get something new out of it every time.
I don't like Riversmith either, he far too serious, but I guess being a scientist he has to live in the real world. I love the interaction between Aimee and Emily though, it's so sweet. I so wish I could have played Aimee's part!
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Post by Admiral Sun Wentai on Feb 19, 2008 8:45:54 GMT -5
I think I went emotional when watching the thing, I even bought the VCD to satisfy myself.  |
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Post by mmadforever on Feb 19, 2008 17:33:22 GMT -5
i loved this movie and i was sem-confused about the flurting thing too. But Maggie Smith did an amazing job, as always!
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Post by harmonydumbledore on Mar 19, 2008 17:22:40 GMT -5
I believe Riversmith and his wife were to serious for their own good. If I was in the movie I imagine he would look down on me as well because I, like Emily, love to observe people. I also love to fantasie about things. I find being normal vastly over rated and think we all need to me a little wacky every now and then. The world is full of crazy people and if you don't believe it you live in a hole.
I think Emily flirts with the Professor because he is like the men she's used to. Watch the movie and you can see she loves that the German and General like her for her, but she doesn't completely inderstand that. What she understands is being put down, and though she doesn't like it; it's what she's used to. ANy way that's my....well four cents I guess because it's my second post.lol.
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