Literature and Society: Bohemian Rapsody – A Quiet Passion – The Happy Prince – My Generation
Bohemian Rapsody
Never seen Queen as cult band in their heyday – too slightly commercial. But now, watching this honest biopic, I was moved, and took a chance to re-watch Live Aid, and found how poor today’s music scene is.
A Quiet Passion review – Cynthia Nixon gives Emily Dickinson the soul of a poet, The Guardian
In this film, Cynthia Nixon has the face of someone with a secret. She plays the poet Emily Dickinson, and her face is fever-bright with irony and wit, then loneliness and fear. You can see how emotions are somehow stored in that face provisionally, being refined and saved for later – for the poetry she writes during the night…
The Happy Prince review – Rupert Everett is magnificent in dream role as dying Oscar Wilde
When it comes to Oscar Wilde, my heart beats up. In his decaying period, full of sorrow, regret, sadness and stoicism, he is more charming than before. Decadence has its grandeur, like challenge