Movie: Flawless

We got Flawless free from Jaman on our TiVo.

This movie starts out rather drab and dull, then gets very interesting. Unfortunately it's got plot holes you can drive a truck through, and while it pretends to address gender issues, it really whiffs on the chance to explore them meaningfully.

As an aside, one of the important secondary characters is played by Derren Nesbitt, who was in a memorable episode of UFO called "The Man Who Came Back," which also starred a post-Rat Patrol Gary Raymond.

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Movies: Manoushe and Reservoir Dogs (TODS only)

TODS watched Manoushe: A Gypsy Love Story online from Netflix. It turned out to be in Italian without subtitles! However, an attentive audience can well appreciate the film without a translation of the dialogue.

The movie is divided into a number of sequences of widely varying quality; the opening and closing segments, which serve as a framing device for the central segments, are sumptuously photographed with exquisite music and choreography. In contrast, the central parts, while not without clever moments, were far more pedestrian and less than inspired in their use of surrealistic elements.

Reservoir Dogs was another free movie from Jaman, much appreciated since it is considered a very fine movie. TODS would compare it to a painting from Picasso's blue period: a deliberately limited palette, but excellent in execution. Because of its self-imposed restrictions, he probably would not rate it as highly as others do, but he nevertheless enjoyed it.