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2009/3/7

I served the King of England

@ 12:05 PM (8 months, 21 days ago)

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/24/kingofe1.jpgOne of these films that apart from dramatizing a book, takes us on a life that mirrors the fortunes of a country.  In this case, Czechoslovakia – between and after the wars.  Well-known director Jiri Menzel does a sort of Forrest Gump with a hotelier who is unlikeable but gets into all sorts of scenes that mark local history.http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/6535/kingofe2.jpg  Some great scenes but a lot of uncreative filler too – nude scenes, small episodes that don’t move the story along. The humour is also inconsistent, at least for us – both very funny and flat.http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/4964/kingofe3.jpg  A curiosity more than anything.

 

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