jwbblog: The balcony is open

Monday, January 07, 2008

The balcony is open

I'm going to stop blogging about this Bond 22 business for a while. Its getting kind of annoying. Today's news is that the new "Bond Girl" is not Gemma Arterton but rather the heretofore unknown to me Olga Kurylenko. (However, I see that she was the vampiress--Is that a word?--who falls for Frodo Baggins in the sometimes interesting Paris je t'aime, which we watched over the weekend.) Arterton plays MI6 Agent Fields. I've posted a sexier picture of her for Raphy and Marty, who think I am being unfair to her. (And more ici.) I'll probably have to watch CR again one of these days. It seems that 22 is a continuation of events from that movie.

While were on the topic--of movies, that is--my second favorite childhood comic hero was Asterix the Gaul. (The first was Tintin, mentioned here before and the subject of another forthcoming movie--or three.) The Asterix books are great fun, but I've managed to avoid the movies until now. (Mainly because they're in French, though I'm not sure how I've missed this one--with Bellucci, who's pretty much the hottest woman on earth.) Perhaps I'll have to check out the new one. Cinematical reports that it's one of the most expensive European films ever made--which means, at the very least I suppose, that it'll be visually very interesting. There are a bunch of trailers and such here that--despite the presence of Gerard Depardieu--would seem to confirm my hunch.

Has anyone else out there seen Paris je t'aime? Some hits and some misses, but overall kind of interesting. I loved the bit with Nat Portman. I'll note that, while the bit from the Coen Bros. was kind of funny, methinks their heart wasn't really into it.