tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749675.post111992153460339095..comments2024-02-27T09:33:19.779-05:00Comments on Music & More: The Girl in the Cafe (HBO Films, 2005)William Kateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07366905492068156424noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749675.post-86836158859987686132012-08-27T21:36:47.480-04:002012-08-27T21:36:47.480-04:00I've just watched this for the 4th time. It...I've just watched this for the 4th time. It's now 2012 and I still love every moment of it. I have to disagree with the other two posts: for me it was all in character; why wooden't Gina be wooden, having just done time in prison for GBH? Why wouldn't she be as reserved as she was to start with having seen a child killed (probably her own)? And why wouldn't Lawrence continue to mismanage things? He's got a track record of not being able to handle the normal things of life (as he says himself) and by the end he's in love. Who doesn't behave irrationally when they are seriously in love? He's also old-fashioned and polite, and can't see how to stop her going to the dinner without offending her. He also agrees with what Gina says - after all she got it from him, so maybe his sub-conscious is at work too. When he says,'Why did you do it then?', she replies words to the effect, 'I took comfort in the thought that it was what you wanted, even though it wasn't what you wanted'. For me this is a brilliant piece of craftmanship by a supreme master, wonderfully witty and extremely amusing at times. It's that rare commodity perfect art, not for art's sake. I'd rate it even higher than David Hare's play Page Eight (which stars Bill Nighy in a slightly similar role, and I rate that very highly. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749675.post-1121713795796081342005-07-18T15:09:00.000-04:002005-07-18T15:09:00.000-04:00I just watched this movie last night.I was taken i...I just watched this movie last night.<BR/><BR/>I was taken in by the love story and I was really hoping the couple would still be together at the end. While I agree with the political statement made here I thought it was a bit too preachy in the way it was handled and I found this to be the least interesting part of the film. A little more subtlety would have been better. I agree with you. Why would Lawrence keep bringing Gina to the events knowing she was going to mouth off. Not realistic!Charlie Riccihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06930103645729165149noreply@blogger.com