Amelie / Your Sensory Film Cornucopia Charcuterie Smörgåsbord (Guest: Kristina Haddad)

On this episode of The Review Review, we are joined by Actor/Acting Coach/Head of the non-profit Brett's Bass Fund, and many other things as well, Kristina Haddad, for her charming choice "Amèlie." (2001 d. Jeunet).  Starring Audrey Tautou, and Mathieu Kassovitz. Our biggest, and most important question this episode; How much prank, is too much prank? Foot cream toothpaste? Tiny slippers? Tampering with electronics? 111 copies of ************: ******* ** *** ****** on dvd? Possibly eternal questions. This, and the origins of the beloved "Travelocity Gnome," all in this episode!

**All episodes contain explicit language**
Artwork - Ben McFadden
Review Review Intro/Outro Theme - Jamie Henwood
"What Are We Watching" & "Whatcha been up to?" Themes - Matthew Fosket
"Fun Facts" Theme - Chris Olds/Paul Root
Lead-Ins Edited/Conceptualized by - Ben McFadden
Produced by - Ben McFadden & Paul Root
Concept - Paul Root

Transcript

Well, let's find out in the record, and you can play it back and listen to it. Yeehaw. Okay. Are you gonna show me your pretty face? Or Oh, sure.

Every time is a learning experience. My marijuana addled brain. Hello, everyone. Clearly, this is Paul, and I'm with your other co host. That would be Ben.

This is the review review. What the is the review review? You might be asking. It is a movie podcast. So if you are a cinephile, you are in the right place.

If you're just a casual movie watcher, you're in the right place. Oh, good. Whoo. And what do we do here? Well, we usually have a guest.

That guest will bring us a movie that's slightly older, not part of a major franchise, but something they feel passionately about one way or the other. And we come together. We have all watched this movie. We talk. We chat.

We joke. We make light of subjects, and we come back together to see if our feelings or ranking on said movie have changed. Was that right, Paul? Yeah. That was really, really detailed.

Also, you can say fuck. There's a part where you didn't say fuck, and you can say fuck. Alright. Let me try I'll say I'll try it one more time. You call fuck?

Oh, okay. In this case, Christina, you can also say fuck. Everyone can say fuck. Christina Haddad is with us. She is an actor and acting coach as well as heading a nonprofit, Brett's Space Fund.

Christina is a wonderful person and has brought us, like, a a movie that abides by all rules. We we didn't kinda move anything around, a movie called Amelie. But before we talk about Amelie, Christina, please talk about you and these things I mentioned. Oh, I feel like I should be speaking French. Hello.

I feel like I should do the whole thing in the. It's terrible. I'm so sorry. But The tran the transcription will be wild if you do that. So oh my goodness.

I would love it. Yeah. Hi, guys. Thank you so much for having me. So, a little bit about me.

I'll I'll keep it short because I'd rather talk about the movie. No. Yeah. I'm an actor and acting coach. I spent twenty years in Los Angeles, like, doing what I call the Hollywood shuffle and, had some, you know, incredible experiences there.

And then I've always been infatuated by the Pacific Northwest, and there's lots of, activity here acting wise as well. So came on up here and, also an acting coach with the Actors Lab, which is a studio that's based in Los Angeles. I studied there when I was in LA and super super super duper passionate about teaching. It's one of my greatest passions. Brett's Base Fund, the nonprofit that I run, formed in honor of my late husband by his friends and myself and his loved ones.

My late husband Brett was a prolific bass player and so we give out scholarships for people to learn the bass and they get a year's worth of bass lessons, mentorship with a professional musician and a bass guitar setup. So pretty thrilling. We had our first round of scholarships last year and impact. We have a focus on mental health benefits of music. Just getting ready to, to do our next round of scholarships.

So anyone out there that's a bass player, aspiring bass player, you know, look us up. We'd love to be in contact. That's awesome. Where where can they find you? Yeah.

Brets bass fund dot org. My email's on there, and please get in contact, because we have some really cool, like, ways that we fundraise actually that are very community driven and the scholarships, I should add, are for any age across the country. So it's not something that's like just focused on young folks. We we really are interested in any age. You can self nominate or nominate someone else, and thanks for letting me, you know, spout on about that because this is what we're I'm really passionate about, and thank you for that.

No. I think that's great, honestly. Yeah. Thank you thank you for being here too. Absolutely.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna now but I'm gonna put this on you, Ben. What have you been doing? It's on me first.

Okay? Yeah. Okay. Make it easier on myself. Well, I wrapped up my theater festival this last weekend.

Fourteen forty eight. Fourteen '40 '8. Paul was there. That's true. Yeah.

It was a lot of work. I'm really tired. Still kinda recovering, but it was success. Our third festival in Hollywood and definitely growing every year and all the good stuff that you would hope to do as you're growing a theater festival. So Community.

Exactly right. Community growth. Is there more you've been doing? I went to the dentist today. Oh.

Good for you. Oh, how'd that go? Cleaning. It was my first time in, like, four or five years because our our SAG insurance just kicked in. So Oh, yeah.

Nice. And zero cavities. Wow. Woah. You kept the cavity creeps away.

That's impressive. With the with the brush a brush a brush a. Do it when you can. More like with more like with the flossy, flossy, flossa. Oh, that too.

Yeah. On the note of Brusha Brusha Brusha, Grease, good good enjoyable movie. Everybody likes Grease. Right? Just like you watch watch Amelie, probably almost everybody likes that.

Right? You'd assume? And I think so. Grease, the best part of the movie, it's like the movie gets really interesting at the very end. It's like, these people are suddenly flying away in a car.

The one thing weirder than breaking out into song and dance and you end the fucking movie? Come on. Or is the whole part last part of the movie in Danny's mind? Oh. Because she changes for him.

Reception. Yeah. She becomes like a greaser girl. Lit pink lady ception. Anyway, I don't know.

Christina What do you want me to chime in on Grease? Because I can. What what have you been up to? What have you been doing? I love it.

Oh, I guess we've got three union people here, SAG AFTRA people. Yeah? Yeah. Mhmm. That's awesome.

And congratulations, Ben, on your festival. I'd love to hear more about it. But, what have I been doing? Yeah. Acting wise, no.

I knock on fake wood here. No wood. I had a good year this year. Three SAG feature films with similar Wow. Really good actual roles and really beautiful, interesting, creative script, so very thrilled with that.

And, yeah, you know what? Actually, I'm I'm I'm working on, two scripts. Actually, someone took over the script, but in the production phase of it, it's called Miss Ethnic Nonspecific. It's based on a play that I wrote, but it's about being ethnically nonspecific in Hollywood. And then the other script is, collaborating with someone here in town and it's called Cleanup on Aisle nine.

And it's about the aft it's about widowhood, basically, but a dark Oh, okay. It's it's a dark comedy and but it's about the journey of of widowhood and, with lots of kind of actual some magical realism elements in Denver. Oh. Yeah. So I've been working I've been working on as far as you're asking about the creative stuff, I should also mention that I also work for a nonprofit environmental organization that's based in Los Angeles, and I've done environmental non profit work for pretty much almost thirty years.

So Very cool. Yeah. And it didn't have to be anything about the creative stuff at all, but I love that you went over those things. Yeah. There it is.

But I mean and and walking my dogs on a daily Great. Five times a day basis. How's that? Me? All.

All. I'm mostly recovered from the back injury. I got acupuncture today. Yay. She's like, got all the needles out.

All good. I'm like, okay. Great. Finally start wiggling my fingers and bending my knees. And I try to bend my right knee and it doesn't really bend and then my quad kinda jerks.

And I was like, there's definitely still a needle in there. And she was like, oh, my bad. I'm good. But that was like a different kind of pain. I'd never experienced that before.

Wild. It makes the movie kiss of the dragon starring Jet Li all that much more realistic, y'all. But also, Christine was talking about writing, and I recently, when I was like bedbound, I got 70 note cards done for something that I've been trying to have the motivation to do for quite a while, and I did them in a day. Wow. And so depending on who you speak to or what school of thought or whose methodology you believe, there's no correct or wrong or any way about writing just right.

For me, the 70 note card thing works. Now I just have to tackle it. Can I can I ask you a question? Absolutely. Is there a part for me?

I said forget about it, because I've got just the part for you, Ben. Yes. You can throw I'll take a line or two. I don't dude, now we're all shit we're all, like, chilling for we're all, like, okay. Woah.

Woah. Both of you read reset button, and then you can resend those offers to wanna be in the next thing I do. Okay. You already you already gave it to me. I read it.

Remember? You read a reset button all the way through? I didn't know. I don't know. Yeah.

You remember? You you sent it to me, and you asked me to read a chunk of it for, like, YouTube or something during Oh, yeah. Yeah. That was when you read the whole thing. Okay.

My fault. How was I I'm not gonna just read a chunk of it without knowing the entire script. I'm the same. I'm usually the same way. I'm a psycho like that.

What have we been watching? Oh, god. I'm embarrassed. Maybe someone else should start. I'm I'm happy to start.

Yes. I'll kick it off. Paul wants to talk about it. Paul wants to talk about it. More sophisticated than I am.

PCJ. Explain. Pop culture jeopardy. So is that sophisticated? I don't know.

But all the kids call it PCJ. Because all your friends look here. Oh. Colin Jost wants it to be PCJ. Pop Colin Jost?

I don't know. PCJ. But pop culture jeopardy. I I wanna be on pop culture jeopardy. I'm having a blast watching it.

It's great. I I came up with a team name, PCJ CVD. I know you like to look at I y k y k. Six and half a bitch. I mean, come on.

You're so good. So so To to just to honor Jean Claude Van Damme's work through in pop culture films. Absolutely. Breakin', Bloodsport, Time Cop, Hard Target, which we did on this program. And also, like, as an NBA fan and former player back in the forties, back when I was at my athletic peak.

When you played baby sports? Yep. When I played baby sports. Wait. Hold on.

I just I just wanna mention, Christina, you said something that when we asked what you've been watching, you just let Paul go first. Yeah. Yeah. CJ. You said that maybe he's been he's really high was it high was that the I don't know.

Highbrow. Absolutely not. Never. Sophisticated. Sophisticated.

Yeah. I feel like that was a mistake. So Okay. I was ready to talk about ninety day fiance after the ninety days. Like, I'm always.

But NBA trades, it's Insane. Sorry, big game of football. Sorry. It's NBA trade time, motherfuckers. Love it.

It's insane. Great time. And you've got your blazers. I hat on. I'm so glad we can see everything.

Right. No shit. So how many blazers trades, Paul? None as of this moment. I'm trying not to, like, keep an eye on my phone.

It would be interesting to see Wow. A couple they've been they've been very good the last, like, ten, twelve games. Very good. Christina, what have you been watching? Oh, boy.

I knew this this is the dreaded question. I'm not gonna lie. You can make it short and sweet. Okay. I'll make it short and sweet.

Special Forces, that, reality show. Oh, I've never seen it. Oh, man. That sucker is addictive. I it's called something like that special forces unit something or other.

And that's man, that fucker is like it's it's it's kinda got every like, you're like they bring in people's personal stories and then they're doing these things that you're like, you couldn't fucking pay me enough to do it. And always feel like such shame, like, I'm an acting coach. Like, I feel like you should rattle off, like, the 10 best movies and all the the kind of, like, highfalutin Netflix shows and what have you. Nobody cares. No.

It's called it's called Real House. Yes. Doesn't it have celebrities on it? It does. I was gonna ask is it celebs or is it like unknowns?

It's it's an interesting there's like a Cam Newton's on it. Right? Yeah. Cam Newton's on there right now. So, like, there's athletes.

There's a lot they bring in athletes and kinda other reality people and there's an actor too. It's a hot it's a real hodgepodge of people. Okay. Yeah. Smorgasbord.

It is a smorgasbord And the stuff they make them I don't know liability wise, they must sign damn or they have to sign their lives away because the stuff that they're having them do, you're like, you know? But it's oh, yeah. And the guys that, like, oh god. You I really I might have to do a a special forces improv or something, but, it'd be like I think it could be yeah. I I hate to admit it, but I I I am a real like, I do like The Real Housewives.

It's a safe place. Salt Lake City. I I you know? Yeah. It is.

Like, Love is Blind. You know, I'll I'll I'll get like, I am looking forward to White Lotus. I am Oh, yeah. I am super excited about the next round of White Lotus, and I really hope they do White Lotus in the ski resort because I feel like Anything in the snow is almost always better. Like, it's raw.

It's perfect for White Lotus. So If you're a James Bond person, you always want James Bond to end up in the snow at some point. Oh, like cocaine. I believe this season's in China. It's in Thailand.

Thailand? So really quick, Ben. I'm so sorry. Before you say what you've been watching, please call have run into Mike White a couple times, few times. Like, lovely guy.

And he was just one time, ran into him just in the streets in Venice and we were in the same store and we just kind of smiled at each other and I said, hey, I really enjoy your work. And he just kind of looked at me and smiled and he went, okay. Oh my god. That was it. Like, perfectly polite.

Like, I don't even know if he heard me. Like but it was just Nice. Because I couldn't of course, as everybody who listens to this knows, I just can't fucking help myself. For a second, I thought you meant Venice Italy Italy, and I was like Of course. Absolutely.

We're scouting for White Lotus season eight. Sure. Yeah. You gotta stay ahead. I am gonna get it wrong.

Amora Amora. Amora? Amora. I did say that. Yes.

Yes. Oh. Oh, yeah. Fantastic movie. Yes.

Yes. Agreed. So I feel like I'm I'm, you know, got some retribution. Like, okay. I'm legit.

I actually saw one film. I saw one film that is, for a nomination. I There you go. Yeah. I did a decent segue into what I'm I was gonna talk about all the nominated movies I've been watching.

You should not Please save us. Save us. But now save us fancy boy. You. But now I feel pedantic.

Yes. Fancy you. I'll I'll get there. I'll get there. I mean, I have been, of course, watching Severance season two.

Mhmm. I I was gonna so I watched The Substance, which Oh, I do wanna see that. I fucking loved it. I saw someone describe it as it's somehow both high brow and low brow at the same time. Perfect.

And then speaking of low brow, I saw Amelia Perez, which, I hated it. Yeah. Woah. Okay. Yeah.

Yeah. Good. Yeah. Say it loud. Say it right wherever you go in it.

Say they absolutely hated it, and why is it even I don't know. I've heard that. Yeah. I have no idea why it's in any conversation with any of these other movies that I've seen. I've also seen better movies this year that aren't in any sort of nomination conversation.

Prom. It yeah. It's it's not it's just a bad it's just a bad movie. And, like, as a fan of musicals, the music is bad. The choreography is bonkers.

It's like So go back to the The redeeming part, I guess, is Zoe Saldana or Saldan yeah. She's great. Oh, Zoe's Saldana. Saldana. Saldana or Saldana.

Yeah. But, yeah, she's she's great, and she's always been good. And it's nice to finally see her, like, not be blue or green and get to, like, act and Yeah. It's it's not a good movie. It's a bad movie.

And I anyway but the substance, I'm probably gonna treat myself to see the brutalist on Friday. Okay. I love the idea of a movie with an intermission. Me too. This episode is brought to you by an intermission, which you'll get at intermission.

Order your drinks. Stand it at intermission. Here's here's here's a hot tip. Order your drinks before the first act to pick up at intermission. Oh.

Oh. Okay. Okay. You heard it here at some point. May first could be.

Absolutely could be first. Could be the first. Not gonna rule that out. I wanna say one thing. Christina said Hollywood Shuffle earlier.

If anyone is hearing me that wants to bring that movie to this podcast, please please bring the movie Hollywood Shuffle directed by Robert Townsend. It is someone you'd like to talk about. Someone in Germany is listening. Okay. We always have that one person in Frankfurt.

Right? They'll help us out. We'll get there. Okay. Well, here we are.

Facts? It's time for facts, buddy. Archaeology is the search for facts. All the kids in Springfield are so Let me get my reading glasses on. By the way, I'm just gonna preface this.

I am probably the worst person to read anything French. I'm glad you didn't give me names, but last time last time I was in France with Was that strategic? Last time I was in France in 2015 with, Jess, my wife, she she was embarrassed by me. Aw. Like, if I walked in somewhere, she's and I say bonjour, she'd be like, you sound like you're saying banjo.

It did a little it did a little bit. I'm sorry. So I'm probably the most most American anyway, here we go. We're gonna lose we're gonna lose our listener in France. Bonjour.

We're gonna lose our listener in Ireland. That's okay. They can come back after intermission. Alright. We'll receipt after intermission.

We watched Amelie. It is Claudi Osad Productions. Sure. Union General Cinema to cinematographiki. I don't know.

And so many others like Canal put like, there are a million production companies here. It is rated r. It came out in 02/2001. It is two hours and two minutes. The budget of this movie is 10,000,000 adjusted that is 17,700,000.0.

Opening weekend in North America was 11/04/2001. It made a hundred and 36,000 in The US, Two Hundred And Forty One Thousand adjusted. Final gross, North America, 30 3 Point 7 Million. Adjusted, 59,700,000.0. Final gross worldwide, a hundred and 75,100,000.0, adjusted Wow.

310,300,000.0. Wow. Made some money. Some bucks. Other releases this weekend, Monsters Inc.

Put that thing back where it came from also. Help me. Also help me. Help me. The one, domestic disturbance, the man who wasn't there.

Weekend top five, Monsters Inc, the one domestic disturbance. K PAX Oh. Third that's a prop that's the appropriate response to K PAX. I don't do that a lot. But that one's lit.

I don't even know any of these films. What the hell? Because I got sucked into a video. Which one? K PAX K PAX was a, was the, Spacey eats a banana with a peel on it.

Wow. He's like an alien. Okay. Coo he liked sunglasses. The one was Jet Li traveling through the multiverse.

Dimensions. Yeah. It's like our fur one of our first big multiverse things outside of last action hero. There you go. Yeah.

Yeah. 13 ghosts was Tony Shalhoub, and Shannon Yeah. Oh, I love him. Tony Shalhoub? American Pie, Shannon.

Elizabeth. Shannon Elizabeth. Elizabeth Shannon. That's Yeah. Yeah.

This movie debuted in The US at '29 and its peak position and its peak position at number nine. Other films from 02/2001, Pearl Harbor, Jurassic Park three, a movie we were just talking about, Paul. Uh-huh. Doctor Dolittle two, AI artificial intelligence, Bridget Jones Diary, Chocolat, Seaspot Run. Another movie we were just talking about, Seaspot Run.

Not me. Oh. I thought that was someone else. What? From I love Seaspot Run.

Wait. I can't say hell. I have to say from heck. Say from heck, please. From heck, please.

Thank you. Good. Way to follow directions. Well, the way to take a fucking note. Yeah.

You're welcome. And exit wounds. Letterboxd average of this movie is 4.2. Follow me on letterboxd at run dmc. Paul?

I'm at Paul acts badly. Christina, do you ever go on Letterboxd? I don't know what it is. That's a very common response. Alright.

How's that for an answer? It's a great answer. Okay. I Very common. Alright.

It's like, what's the one for books? Goodreads? Goodreads. Oh, okay. Got it.

Okay. It's like that for movies. Oh, I better get my butt on over there then. It's pretty fun. Pretty cool.

I spent too much time on it, honestly. Alright. Because I'm learning so much already. I'm loving it. Letterbox is it's a great way to just, like, vlog a movie and Share your thoughts, consume thoughts.

Yeah. Track your habits k. Without without all of the Facebook baloney. Mhmm. Balogno.

Not not a fan. Uh-oh. Ebert gave this movie 3.5 out of four. Rotten Tomatoes, 90%. Popcorn meter is 95%.

Good. Metacritic is 70. User, 8.3. Major wins and nominations, five Oscar noms, including best foreign film, writing, cinematography, nine BAFTA award noms, and a golden glob Gordon Globules? Gordon glob now.

I call him Golden Globules, but yes. My name is Gordon Glob. Welcome to the Golden Globes. Goldie Gloria. Golden Globe for best foreign film.

Mhmm. Wow. Okay. Yes. Good good amount of noms.

Paul, you wanna talk about people? I love to talk about people. Can you pronounce their names perfectly? Nope. Okay.

Director of this film is Jean Pierre Jornet, a very long engagement, big bug, Alien Resurrection, Ben's preferred alien film to Alien three. I did not say that. Go back and listen to our Alien three episode to be sure everyone. That's the only way to know. For sure.

You never know with this guy. Good night. Writers for Jean Pierre Jeunet, the young and prodigious TS Spivot, and Guillaume Laurent. I lost my body. Where'd it go?

To the multiverse. You better catch it before it goes out the door. Is your refrigerator running? It's real bad. The director of photography of this film was Bruno Delbonnet, big eyes, Darkest Hour, Tragedy of Macbeth.

Quite quite a resume for Wow. The the cinematography in Tragedy of Macbeth is phenomenal. It is. It's really amazing. It's a beautiful movie.

Mhmm. Music of this film, Jan Tiersen, Goodbye Lenin, Taverly, and Hurricane. Oh. Producers were Helmut Brewer, Wake of Death, Bastille Griset, Stowaway, and Claude Hossard in the house. Now there are also many, many other people.

There were a lot of folks that wanted this movie to get made. This movie stars Audrey Tattoo as Amelie, the Da Vinci Code, Russian dolls Coco before Chanel, Matthew Kasowitz as Nino, The Fifth Element. Where's the cash? Give me the cash. Oh, yeah.

Haywire and Munich. Fucking Munich, man. Oh. The movie rules. Somebody bring Munich.

There's a new Munich movie called September 5. I've heard about that. Oh. If we're talking highfalutin, I mean, I guess that's what I gotta see. I still haven't seen Conclave.

I know. I gotta see that. I do wanna see that. Gonna cram some movies in. I'm gonna speaking of Ben was talking about the substance and it's Cronenberg essence.

I I wanna rewatch the dead zone because I'm a sick sick person and I can't escape my sick thoughts. Rufus Rufus, singular name. So you know fucking badass legend. Yes. Yes.

One name. Plays Raphael Delicatessen. Oh, that movie now. Come on. I gotta re I've seen that movie one time in my life.

Same director. I gotta rewatch that. I'm very motivated to rewatch that. Yes. The City of Lost Children and The Tenant.

What are you trying to tell? T e n e t t I n a n t, like a tenant. Lorella Kravota was Amandine. The Art of Nothing, Bloody Oranges Let There Be Light. Serge Merlyn, rest in peace, played Raymond.

Diary of a Seducer, The Man Who Laughed Diary of a Seducer, that sounds like a bad Nicolas Cage erotic thriller. Am I right? Oh, yeah. Or maybe a good one. Who knows?

The Man Who Laughs and Me and Kaminsky. Jamelle Debus played Lucian, Mercado, the new toy, Hollywoo. Embi Hollywoo. It's just Hollywoo. Did you do that on purpose?

No. That's it's Hollywoo. I was wondering if that was a typo, but okay. No. Mb himself.

Hollywoo woo. Okay. Clottee Moyer, Gina, The Intouchables, The Red Violin, a movie that I really enjoy. Mhmm. Samba, Claire Moyer, Madame Suzanne, A Bad Son, Man of My Life, side roads.

Christina, I'm gonna hand you it's you now. I'm a box. It's fun fact time. Fun facts. Fun facts.

I feel like there should be some like, like little sound cue or some little like we could play There will be. Oh, okay. We could play sound ball. I'll start. Drop.

Fun facts fun facts everybody. It's fun fact time. Here we go. Should I do them in a in a bad French accent? No.

You will not. Again, the transcription will be insane. Okay. Yes. So kinda, maybe.

Okay. So Matthew Kosiewicz, who plays Nino, is also a writer director, most notably writing and directing the widely acclaimed French action film, Laine. Whenever this film oh, we're talking about Amelie. Whenever this film was shot on location, Jean Pierre Jeunet and the crew would clean the area of debris, grime, trash and graffiti so that the real settings would match the fantastic nature of the film. This was an especially difficult task when it came time to shoot at the huge train station.

That makes sense? I bet. Yes. Yes. I I mean, yes.

Let's see. Jean Pierre Jeunet, again, the director, began conceptualizing. This is amazing to me. This story in 1974. So that was a good he collected notes, photos, thoughts, journals, writings, musings, etcetera for over twenty five years.

Okay. Yeah. To bring Amelie to a reality and hopefully people who haven't seen this when you do see it, you'll understand like all these well, we'll get into talking about this. Okay. I'll stop that now.

Okay. That was a fun fact. Here's the two more fun facts. The female vocalist playing guitar and singing with the choir is American gospel singer, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who is amazing. If you don't know her music, oh my god, you gotta go look her up.

I mean, the song she's performing performing is Up Above My Head. Sister Rosetta Tharpe has been hailed as the godmother of rock and roll. I swear to God she is and was induced into rock and roll rock and roll hall of fame as an early influencer. She is super badass. Wow.

This film is rated I like that this is rated pretty high up there. This film is rated the one hundred and eleventh best film in IMDb by the users of the site. That's pretty impressive. One one one. We love one.

Yeah. That's We love we love those re repeating numbers here, angel numbers, whatever you wanna call them. We love that. Look up sister Rosetta Tharpe. I'm in the dark.

Oh, you will you will she is super addictive and she is truly like a vanguard. Man, she was a vanguard. I'm writing it down. RIP. I wrote it down with a pen and paper.

Woah. Super serious. Yeah. Okay. Alright.

You are being very professional. I'm I mean, we we have to take in here. My t's and dotting your Lowercase j's. Lowercase j's. Christina, there's one question I have to ask you before we go to intermission brought to us by intermission.

What's the log line to this film? I mean, as you see it or, you know, whatever. This is the official logline. There's different versions of the logline but here we go. Despite being caught in her imaginative world, young waitress Amelie decides to help people find happiness.

Her quest to spread joy leads her on a journey during which she finds true love. And Yeah. I I gotta stop including the log line. This is this has gotten us a couple times now. It's your fault.

We're not so slick. I know I I stopped including it for a while and then, you know, Charles and now Christina and it's not as fun when we can't you know? What do you mean? Sometimes We try to slip the log line by sometimes and get Mostly so up with their own. Yeah.

We try to get people, like, try to figure out what they're doing. Like little monsters. Oh, do you want me to give my own log line? Sure. Trying to get me to do when I didn't do it?

No. It's Paul's No. You're you're you just did the right smart thing. Okay. Okay.

Because I'm happy to give my but, well, I we're gonna be talking about it. So Yeah. We have to take an intermission. Everyone, the restroom, the line is very long. There's another restroom around the corner.

Coffee and tea by dollar donation. Nice. Cool. Great. So we'll reconvene in, like, five minutes.

From the brutal beautiful mind of Brady Corbet comes a new kind of movie that isn't really a movie at all. Coming soon, Intermission, the movie. Following in the footsteps of his breathtaking three and a half hour epic The Brutalist, Intermission the movie will be forty eight hours of nothing but intermission. Brady Corbet himself says, I was sitting there in the in the fifteen inter minute intermission of the brutalist, and I thought, you know, what what if what if someone made a movie, of just this? This?

You know what? I mean, why not mess with with structure? It's not set in stone. So for for forty eight hours, you you can, look at your phone. You you can pee.

You can get a snack. And maybe even squeeze out a little poo. What is intermission if not a break from the banality of daily life? Pretty brilliant if you ask me. Intermission the movie has critics raving.

Variety called it a complete waste of time. Why did we sit through this? Many wept tears of confusion, displeasure, and concern. One guest exclaimed, What is this? Are we in some sort of sick experiment?

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I'm not even halfway finished with my fucking joint. Oh my god. Can you go back in there? The bath, and what do you do? Sit the fuck down.

Welcome back to the review review, everyone. I gotta finish my sick. Welcome back to the three hour second act of this production. Oh. Oh.

Oh, oh. You know, the like, it's always the right thing to do is the first act is needs to be longer than the second act. Yes. And then I've been at shows where they don't do that, and I'm like, who the who made this fucking choice? It's so vicious.

It's vicious. You're like, no. No. No. We don't do.

No. I I oh, that's another thing I'm embarrassed by. But, anyway, for another time. Fair enough. I get my wish though in a way because I'm a kind of a shithead.

Oh. This is where we play a little game. Do you wanna play? Ben when Ben does it, it sounds scarier. Oh, god.

Do you wanna play a game? What? Yeah. No. Oh.

Popped and cracked and oh. Yes. So we play a game here called Cinephile. Ben's gonna show a card to his camera. You're gonna see a drawing of an actor, their name, and then a movie freebie that they've been in in yellow that's, like, kind of hard to see.

Oh, god. How about You'll say the name of the actor and the name of the movie. Yes. And then it'll go me, Ben, you, me, Ben, you, me, Ben, you until somebody can't come up with a movie. It has to be a movie.

This is already First person to go out talks about their very first experience with this movie, their original rating, and then their most recent experience with this movie, yesterday, today, whatever, and their most recent rating before we start talking about the movie. Okay. And I think I understand. My little feeble brain is gonna poke me if I get it wrong. I gotta figure out a way to like shorten to to log line that's not do.

I do. It's my my like, if you were trying to teach me how to play monopoly right now, I'd have to have it like five times. But I think the easiest thing to do is I'm gonna show you this, and you can look at the actor. And then if you if if you can't read the movie, I'll just glance at it and tell you the movie. Alright.

It it is very It's a bitch. Yeah. But I'm gonna start flipping these, and you tell me when to stop. Okay? Okay.

Oh, I love it. It's like getting a tarot reading. Stop. I feel like it's a a magic trick or a tarot reading or oh, and now I say the name of the actor? Yeah.

That's it. And the name of the movie? Rap. I gotta pin you. Do you want me to look I can I can look at it if you want?

It is I can True Romance. Okay. Paul. California with a k. Fight club.

Benjamin Button. Cutting class. Seven. The Mexican. Ocean's 11.

Let's keep going down that rabbit hole. Ocean's 12. Ocean's five. No. I don't know.

Oh my god. Did we say true wait. Oh, the Hollywood. Oh, the one that was just the Hollywood One. Oh my lord.

Hollywoo? No. Embase Embase Hollywoo? Well, I think it seems appropriate, Christina, that you started us off since you brought us the movie. What's your first experience with Amelie?

Oh my gosh. Well, it was back in that 02/2001 when I was only five years old. That's a Paul that's Paul's thing. Oh. I was 55 years old.

I was just a baby when I watched it. Anything. Yeah. And I'm trying to you know? The limit does not exist.

I, at that time, was in LA, and I am a matinee gal. I don't like going to movies at night, and I maybe that's gonna offend some people out there, but I love to go to a movie at, like, the eleven, twelve o'clock showing somewhere in there, or somewhere in the daytime is when I love to go. I just there's something like the movie theater is more empty. I I I you know, especially on a rainy day, it's, like, the best. And in LA and at that time, I've always been drawn to foreign films going back to, you know, as early as I was going to as a artist.

You know? There was this film Pele the Conqueror that, like, I remember seeing it when San Francisco, you know, and this is in the nineties and, like, in my, like, wearing all black and, you know, smoking cigarettes phase. Oh, I'm in that phase. I know. I think I don't smoke anymore, but I still wear black.

But, you know, there's something about foreign films I've always been drawn to. I tend to find that they are way far more interesting generally, than, a lot of American films. Oh, no. It's the cops or Paul from the edit. As Christina's talking about foreign films and things of this nature in this moment, I am inspired to want to lay the Canadian national anthem under some of this, partly because I like what she's saying and I want to reinforce it with a fucking dope song?

That's a great song. And they speak French in some places in Canada, and there's a French movie. I don't know. It's all adding up in my head. My marijuana addled I want to take an intermission here to just recognize our neighbors, those of us in The USA, to the north, depending on where you are, not so much if you're maybe in the Pacific Northwest or New York or Maine, something like that.

In the Sovereign Nation Of Canada, we love you and appreciate you, and you're amazing. Celebrate the Sovereign Nation Of Canada. Now we're just gonna take an intermission for what is maybe the I don't know. My favorite version of the anthem as performed by Mark Donnelly and some of the fantastic people of Canada, attending an NHL game with no further adieu. Oh, wow.

So good. Okay. Back to the program. At that time and since then, and I haven't seen it until just now. Since then, I always was in my top five list because it made such a profound impact on me because of all of the elements that it brought together.

This was a five out of five when you originally saw it. Absolutely. That was a yes, sir. Yes, sir. Now you've just rewatched it.

Sorry. Continue. Please. Yes. And now I've just rewatched it.

And now do I get my current rating? Yeah. How you feel about it in this moment? Oh, even more. Five plus plus plus.

Woah. Yes. Yes. Yes. What's the can you will you expound pretty quick?

Oh my goodness. I think especially because it captures the human condition in a myriad of ways. It's the way that they bring in the magical realism, the way that they bring in the voice over element, the acting, the quirkiness, the quirky characters, the simplicity of it, and yet the elaborateness of it at the same time. The visuals, these details, like, oh my god. The sound the thing about her, like like, sticking her hand in the grain barrel and the hearing the sound of it.

Like, there's so much of it I feel like I relate to, and I must have been too, but I relate to it now. Okay. Every it just, like, it it captures everything I love about storytelling. Oh, there we go. There's a my dog, Ernie, is saying he likes it.

He's giving it a five barks. Five barks? Five barks. Five barks. Five paw paw salute.

I appreciate it now more, and I actually feel like I need to I wanna watch it again because I feel like there's things I missed, you know, because there's just this the detail in it. So I just I fell in love with it all over again. Okay. I Yeah. You know, I find it interesting.

So many guests that come on to this program will say, I just watched this and I'm already ready to watch it again. I almost feel like we should go back and be like, so after you guested with us, did you watch it again? And they're all gonna say no. But Oh, yes. So me.

I watched this at some point in, I wanna say, 02/2002 because it was, like, my it was my sixth birthday. I was at your sixth birthday, Christina, I think. And Ben, you were there. That's right. Yeah.

It was your sixth birthday? Roller skating. Yes. Yeah. Sure.

Golden skate. Absolutely. Yeah. So even as, like, a cynical younger person ish, I liked this movie. Christina hit some really good points in terms of talking about, like, magical realism and human connection and how the movie has, like, a lightness and wanting to spread light and and these sorts of things and coming out of your shell and what you have to offer.

Like, all the messaging's there, and that's all great. I have not seen this movie until today since that viewing. That viewing, then there were so many cat related scores that I was thinking about. Yeah. So many interesting scoring systems.

I gave it four out of five travelocity gnomes at that point. At this point, I think, you know, it's I've been waffling between a couple different scores, and I'm not gonna say what they are. But I ended up sticking at a four at this moment before we all talk about the movie. I love how charming it is, and it's so light and and so on, but the first act is definitely longer than the second act. I feel like there's a couple acts.

The movie is so loaded with so many stories. I like start to feel like a little bit overwhelmed at times. I love the way that this the set decoration of this movie. The the the colors of the paint and the costumes and the way that things are staged and everything feels warm and kind of lived in but really really cared for and I really like that. My eyes almost start to feel tired between like these kind of, amber yellowy gold and rose and kind of green filters or hues or saturations that are happening at times that, yeah.

So I really like it. It's one of those it's like, I understand it's rated r because, you know, you see a boob and somebody says shit and whatever it is. But it's one of those movies that's like I think it's, like, really palatable for almost anybody and being, you know, a movie that's foreign here in The US. You can see by the numbers. And and even though it didn't get above nine, like, it held box office for a long time.

Yeah. It was relevant for a long time. So I'm ready to move clearly because I said I was waffling between scores but ended up at a four. So Ben, please, Amelie, thoughts? How curious.

We're at a four to five. I first saw this movie in college. I was, Hey, fancy boy again. Wow. Yeah.

I was a freshman in college. I hadn't seen it in my working at Hollywood Video Days. It somehow it somehow passed me by. And I remember actually having stand on the edge of tomorrow. Meeting a girl who is in the art department who loved this movie and also lived in my building, which equaled inviting me over to watch the movie in her apartment.

So that's cool. It was a computer watch on her Honesty is the best policy on the review review. Yeah. Go on. There's a laptop watch on on her bed.

Oh. And I don't fully remember the movie if I'm being completely honest. Okay. Why? I'm telling you the experience.

I love it. I wish I I don't have them. It wasn't that exciting for me in that in that regard, but I think that sounds so fun. Yeah. I was I was 19 18.

So, so, yeah, I I can't I can't give it a proper rating from that watch. Okay. But I do like I remembered like, it stuck with me. I remember the visuals. I remembered the colors.

I remembered a lot about it on that side. But, like, the story didn't stick with me. So I rewatched it last night, and I thought it was great. You know, I think it is sort of like iconically and lovingly a 02/2001 movie. Mhmm.

Mhmm. You know, like it's a time capsule, it feels like. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes. There are there are moments that it like that. I'm very reminded of that. Some of the filters, like you said, Paul, the some of the really jarring shaking camera stuff, like things like that. I'm like, oh, it's a Paul Greengrass movie.

What's happening? But I you say that. Yeah. But I but I re and, Jess owns this movie. So I was able to watch it Oh, great.

On Blu ray. I love that. She loves this movie. And so I'm willing to move a little bit, but I'm I'm sitting at a, four and a half Wow. Lashatch.

Oh. Yeah. LeChate. Yeah. So we this is a very high score from everybody to start off with as we've established in previous episodes.

And Ben, I wanna say before we get started too, you said the Paul Greengrass thing, that crossed my mind at a point. So did Linklater, Wes Anderson, PT Anderson, Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach. Yes. Like, this is part of why I wanna rewatch Delicatessen because I'm like, I know I've seen that. I know this is super influential.

I need to go back. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yeah. Oh, I love that. Four four point. Okay. Here we go.

44 a and five I know that. Everybody. Let's start the movie. Can I say fuck? No.

Cocktail movie. Sacktail movie. Sacktail movie. And now, our feature presentation. So we start off with a narration and a pretty graphic, like, birth scene and, you know, scientific film of sperm and everything.

The narration is really quick. The movie hits the ground running. And if you're not you know how we were talking, Paul, last time we talked about dual screening projects that they create now? Like Mhmm. Yep.

Like, this is a movie that is not built for streaming. It is Absolutely not. It is meant for the cinema. And there's the subtitles. And I did am I allowed to chime in here?

Please. Always. Always. Always. Say, I realized and this is also embarrassing that because of how we're on our screens and how we consume information, it was much easier back in the day for me to watch a movie with subtitles.

And I realized I was getting hung up on co watching subtitle and film, and I was a little frustrated with myself because I was like, why did this always seem easier? And I do speak a little French, so I was trying to also just do a little of my practicing in my French while listening. But, yeah, that definitely, I was like, oh, yeah. Subtitles. Yeah.

That's right. Not only because of what you're saying because I agree with that, but also because, like, Ben, you're talking about how it, like, it's like bang out of a gun. Like, you get this graphic, like, birth scene and scientific film and, like, quirky stuff of, like, that feels like Wes Anderson y or that, you know, what have you where the dad is, like, don't look at me in my sandals, organize my toolbox, my shoes. And the the mom and the dad being creatures of habit and everything. And I feel like we go through this really frantic crash course of her childhood and the people that surrounded her and lose some of these people Yep.

While this is happening. And it's, like, it's a lot of extremes. It is. They hit you with so many like, I realized too and that's why maybe I like it because I I realized, like, I do have a let me say this. Like, it was like a visual it was like a it was like a visual cornucopia, like, for me.

So it was like a, you know, it was like a it was like a Did we say earlier smorgasbord and some It was like a charcuterie. You know what? It was like Yeah. Bring it back to France. It was like the really good charcuterie platter.

Like, it it really did have that, like, where I was like, oh, there's a little cheese there. There's, like, some almond. There's got some dried fruit. What was everybody's favorite piece from that charcuterie? Just from that first, like, we're gonna break down the childhood.

Does one thing, like, resonate with anybody? The suicide that killed her mother. That's way up there for me. Yeah. I mean, that was yes.

Memorable. For sure. I don't know if we're jumping ahead to it. We can jump around. I I I you know?

Jump around. Jump jump jump around. Uh-oh. Yeah. I I love when the narrator is doing this thing where he's like, right now at five, fifty five PM, a plant is growing on, Sixth Avenue.

A man is taking a pee in a bush. A woman is giving birth to a squirrel. And I loved that because it really spoke to me about this kind of our kind of humanness and our kind of, like, private moments but also these the weird isms that are sort of universal that Yeah. And Yeah. And and I I I find that there's something very, like, comforting about, oh, that was it.

That was it. That that's what I loved. Oh my god. I I meant I should've taken a note. Fucking love when he goes blah blah blah loves, walking in the rain without shoes, blah blah blah.

Yeah. You know, these quirky things that they love, these very the sound of crinkly, paper, you know, these really, like, minute, very minutia kinds of things. Very specific. Very specific and quirky. Dislikes, when a ladybug flies on their hand, when, you know, just those things that like I personally have a thing around sounds, like I love like crinkly and that was another thing I remember.

No. I like, there's, a certain kind of paper that the cookie goes in at New Seasons. It's like a New Seasons market. Waxed paper. The market.

Yeah. There's, like, a little there's a certain sound that that kind of paper makes when you crinkle it. That fucking sound. Prawn. You're like one of these Leschats.

The the shots like those sounds too. Yeah. When she goes over the the narration is saying she loves cracking a creme brulee with a teaspoon. No. I was like, I wanna do that so bad right now.

Yes. Holy shit. Like the way and you were talking about connection, Christina. Like that it's interesting that this movie I think the thing that really hit me this time with in terms of that human connection thing is like, you have to realize that you're not the main character of this video game or this story or whatever. There's a larger world and you have a lot to offer.

Enjoy the simple things in life. Like like a movie that's, like, palatable and charming and whimsical for, like, everybody. Like, when she goes to the roof and there, she's, like, how many people are having orgasms right now? When you see those 15 people so 15 sets of people fucking, it's funny. That moment is brilliant.

Brilliant. Brilliant moment. Enjoy the little the little moments. Yeah. It's a and it's a tone setter for the rest of the movie, you know, and, like, where it's also, like, a little bit of a, like an insight into her brain as how how she dissects the world and like sees all of the small idiosyncratic things about people that we don't necessarily think about and find love about within ourselves.

You know, like, she can see that and see and and and find, like, the, like, how amazing it is. Yes. Which I and she doesn't necessarily see that about herself yet, which I think is what I really love about the movie is that it takes her a while to get to to that. To realize how big and powerful her her heart is because she's been told it's like, she couldn't go to school and all this stuff because she had to be protected. And it was one of those things where it's like, no.

No. Don't make yourself small. Like, make yourself big. Like, there's you don't have to make yourself small for anybody up to and including yourself, which is nice. So she finds this lady die thing is happening on the TV and it keeps going throughout the movie because that was such a fucking huge deal at that point.

You know? It's crazy too because that's only four years before this movie comes out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Because it's prominent prominent news cycle. Yeah. Globally. And the tile thing, I find that again, the the whimsy, the level of kind of magical realism that you had mentioned. And her when she opens that, is anybody else kind of, like, almost wants to lean forward and be like, what's in there?

Like, it's it's really effective. I found the sound the use of the sound was really, really there was a couple moments where it was just like again, I'm going back to that, like, the sounds and stuff and, like, the tapping of that. Yes. That opening of the thing and the one little creak, like, one little creak when she's standing there and things like that. And I was gonna say, you know, from an acting standpoint, I just was mesmerized by her.

I mean Oh my god. Oh my god. Like, talk about everything happening and very little, again, dialogue. You know? Face was so rich and Yeah.

Stunning, of course, visually beautiful. But, oh my god. I was just like When she goes into Audrey Hepburn mode, like, at a point when they were like, it's so intentional and it's so insanely effective. And I like, Ben, do you I guess this is the way I interpret this, like, what I think what we're all saying. So many things about the movie feel tangible in, like, a satisfying way that a lot of movies don't have.

That's the thing that's landing with me in this moment so far. I well, you Ben, you said it and that and and then you just said it was idiosyncratic. Like, that's the word. Because I maybe what you're speaking to, Paul, is that we live in this, like, fast food, fast everything culture now Content. Ever.

Yeah. Yeah. It's just like it's it's just like it's just it's just so there's just so much we're barraged with. And here, this, like, slows it all down to these, like, Ben said, these idiosyncratic things that we do, that we observe, that we, you know, get a little grin about that, you know Yeah. Do I have And and I and I feel like the messaging of it really is in these tiny moments where we are most human and where we find connection.

And I and I think the idiosyncratic elements of ourselves offer a kind of feeling of I'm not so alone. Oh. Right. How she connects with the you know, I don't know. We're not there yet.

The cracking of a creme brulee for me to be like, yeah. Me too. Yeah. Me too. You know, that's a fun thing.

Seeing that represented and, like, the jokes, she starts playing on that the old curmudgeon into my head. I I the you know, this is the thing for me. Like, the movie, like, slows down a bit when we meet some of the characters and maybe that's intentional. Like, when she meets, like, the neighbor lady and the old couple and, like, the conversations are a little bit, like, oh, I wanna go to the next thing to whatever to and I know there's probably a level of of comedy there that's like maybe, like, I'm just not, you know, in that zone. I don't know.

But, like, that's where the movie kinda drags. And also, like, kinda we just did When Harry Met Sally. Oh. We see Nino a bunch of times or whatever for split seconds, and we only get him toward really toward the mostly the end of the what I think is a two act movie. So it's just, like, you know, getting those little things, but then going to, like, the search for bro bro breadedot breaded toe breaded toe to toe, is he dead?

Is it whatever? But as she's going on like that journey, I feel like it's like, you know, moving. Yeah. Yeah. I hear I hear what you mean.

I felt that. I did feel that. I felt like there was a little dip in there. Just a tiny little dip. I think it's so important, though, because it's it's it's like our town where, like, in our town, we we have to move.

Haven't seen it. Haven't read it. Oh, my God. I know. It's like the most overproduced play ever.

Ever. Yeah. In every every high school in America. But, Thornton Wilder is like he, like, shows us a snapshot. Right?

And the stage manager introduces us to everybody in this town. And I think, like, these moments, these little vignettes with each person are so important to set up her her what she's going to eventually choose to do. Also, you know, something is the thing that I found that I guess just so heart like, so like, we so desperately need heart stuff of around love and tenderness and kindness, you know, And that was central to the whole film, and we don't see that often in film. I really don't think we do in a very authentic genuine way, in a cliched way. And the way that she goes about doing these secret little tasks to bring happiness and hope to these downtrodden people that have lost hope.

I mean, that's the central part to me too is that this array of people, which personally quite frankly on a personal level I can relate to is like this hopelessness of all these characters that have been damaged in some way are, you know, now cynical, have lost hope in in some way. And then she brings them this dollop of hope, of this magic, of you know what, there's magic is still possible even though she's sort of she's not fabricating, but she's orchestrating it. Who cares? Who cares how it comes? To a decision.

Feeling some sense of hope and magic and possibility. Like, I won't get to my favorite part yet, but but that part of it, how she was orchestrating that was to me, like, delightful to go, wow. Look at how she's doing that. I I think that's mostly true, and I love that it's also through, like, little single acts of just, like, just know this thing or believe this thing or do this thing, and that's it. You just have to make this choice for yourself, which is I like that.

The did what happened with Georgette and Joseph? Did they wrap that up? What's who's that? The the relationship of the cafe cigarette lady and, like, the the guys who's, like because that that seemed like it ended up bad. You know what?

You're right. You're right. I mean, it's not all perfect. Not everybody belongs together, etcetera. I think I think I think that's the realism.

So I think the idea of it, which might have just been super French, is that their relationship will be healthy. They just have to find balance. He has to find balance of not holding on to that. And that they didn't necessarily show us, like, the coming back together. Yeah.

It didn't it didn't seem like the way that, I don't remember the person who works at the the older lady who works at the cafe, but she says something like you have to give room or something. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes.

So I think the idea was that it doesn't end bad, but that they're Yeah. They're experiencing, like, a normal relationship problem and that Right. She's altruist. That's the thing I really like. It's, like, she has she ends up where she ends up not necessarily by, you know, doing these things with her for other people to gain from any end.

Not at all, which is Not at all. Which is a great message and I like that. And I like that when she meets the breadato breadato guy or whatever that it's like, it seems like he's got some sort of mild flaw to some degree and his, you know, moment of self therapy or self guidance is like, I just need to swallow my pride and talk to my kid. Yeah. And and then you do get, you know, these these first couple few what, like, when she walks the blind gentleman, like, you know, through and she explains everything in great detail and takes like it seems like it's rushed, but she's taking the time.

And and like, I I'm enjoying all this stuff. I'm like entertained. I'm like trying I guess it's like sometimes when I I guess I see the dad and certain other things, I'm like, it feels slow. I feel that like I want my other screen thing to whatever degree. But when she starts imagining her own funeral, I'm very on board for that.

Oh, god. It's like, that's my god. I mean, I I like her breaking the fourth wall. You know? I love that, and it's not overused.

Like, it's just little these little twinkly looks that she gives us. But I was gonna say, the other thing is the artist, the painter, who reminds me reminds me of Keith Richards. He caught out of Keith Richards going on. He first of all, him as an actor. I I loved him too.

That kind of relationship, I I really appreciated. Like, I was like, it's where are they gonna go with this? Like, I know he's gonna teach her a lesson somewhere. It's like somewhere there's gonna be and so I I I just appreciated that sort of that it wasn't sexualized. Like Oh, yeah.

You know, I appreciated that it was like, no. You know what? It's he wasn't, like, gawking after her or they could've, you know, done some movies might have made it like no. It was just a you know? Yes.

A young beautiful woman can have a friendship with an older yes. That can happen. You know? Sure. Like a a sort of like a fatherly thing or an uncle thing or something like that.

And I I really like that that didn't go in that direct that it didn't take in that direction. You know? Mhmm. Why why is what's the obsession with Renoir and, like, the making the forgeries or did I miss something there? Like, he's is he just obsessed with that?

I think it's an OCD thing. Okay. I that I may have missed that. My OCD may have kicked in. I don't know.

I'm like, Ben's gonna Ben's gonna give us the, like, feel it. Ben's gonna give us the under the table. I mean, I I mean, I think honestly because what ends up eventually happening is he breaks out of it. So I think Right. I think that he is, like, he's stuck in a loop of something.

Sure. Okay. Yeah. That And my like, he breaks away from the clock on his television first. That's cut yeah.

Okay. This is sure. It seem like maybe he's a It didn't feel like a hole to me really. It just yeah. There's something like he's he he, you know, his, like, TV is wrapped in pillows.

Because his bones are made of glass. He's mister Glass from Unbreakable. M. Night Shyamalan birthday, August 6. My birthday, August 6.

Is that something? Is that the twist of this episode? What? No. No.

Oh, shit. Okay. Little kind of a reach. Somehow Palpatine returned. But, you know, just to talk I think the movie doesn't slow down for me.

Okay. What what it feels like is that these are individual stories that she is engaging with and pushing forward, and they're each disconnected or or she's the common thread. Right. Yeah. Okay.

I'm so tired for her though, I guess. Like, I'm just there's so many of I know. But Sorry. But I don't know. I mean, that's for me.

Like, I and I think, like, the the way that she gets her dad to, like, leave and go, like, travel the world, like, with the Travelocity gnome. Yeah. Come on. Oh, yeah. The Travelocity.

My god. It's just so sweet. And I and, again, like, coming back to I and I think, like, it just takes her so long to realize that she can do the same thing for herself. It's so the hero's journey in that way too. You know?

Oh, yeah. Well, it's because she's like a superhero on this. Right? She's like It really is. Yeah.

Yeah. She's just superhero. She can anticipate I mean, she's like, he's gonna do this with the sugar. He's then gonna do this. There there are points where she can kind of see what's gonna have, like, the blue arrows.

What's gonna happen two or three steps ahead. But the when she decides to play like cafe cupid with Georgette and Joseph who's already stalking his ex that works there, who dates a lot of guys, and Amelie is mildly either interested or intimidated or knowing of her gravity in terms of that. And she is helping this horribly awful storefront owner manager guy who's, like, terrible to his disabled, like, employee, and he's just, like, a total shitbag. Yeah. And I I will say in this moment also, like, sciatica is serious.

Sciatica is not a joke. Sorry, Georgette. Sciatica is terrible. It costs me a lot of pain and discomfort. And this guy that hates critics, I'm with him because thank the flying spaghetti monster.

We do reviews here. We're reviewers. We're not critics. Oh. But this guy is just like, they really set him up for a fall really quickly in terms of the way that he's treating, like, the employee and the way he talks and all that.

Mhmm. First, I was like, oh, this seems like pretty harmless, like, tricks she's playing on him. Mhmm. Fun fun small anecdote when in high school, my friend went out of town and we were watching house what what's house sitting? That's the word.

We decided to move everything in his rooms, like, by an inch. Just like slight things. Oh my god. And I felt like that's feels like like a a fairly harmless prank on someone. What yeah.

That's what you thought, and then you did a nickel in Walla Walla, bro. So and we're not gonna tell the extended version of how that happened, but go ahead. Well, when she, like, puts, like, a needle in the power thing, like, we're gonna start a fire or a light I know. That definitely was, like, an escalation of her that that mischievous nature was going to the next level. And I and I liked that.

I like it was like, you know what? Like, there was, like, a little them. Edge there. Yeah. That guy sucks.

So The changing of the slippers was great and, like, the foot cream thing was great, but I agree where it's, like, almost starting an electrical fire is, like, where you kinda drop off. I mean, the way she does the the mark of Zorro, like, and stuff too, and that she imagines herself as, like, a champion for the less fortunate or whatever through that character is pretty cool. I also really love that fantasy daydreaming thing where she was fantasizing about the guy and like that. Mhmm. You know, how it could you know, because who doesn't who doesn't not do that?

Who who does not do do yes. Do everyone. Do do. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah everyone daydreams like that. And I love that they captured that feeling, which is very specific when you are, like, having that crush thing and that phase of it and stuff.

And every you both said that just the details that are so human and specific that Mhmm. We don't get to see that often are privy to, like, in a film, in in my opinion. Oh my god. I want you go ahead. I'm glad you brought up the love interest because he becomes a prominent figure in the movie.

Oh, late in the movie. Yeah. Yes. What's with the creepy skeleton? Oh, when he's, like, the creepy, like, sexual skeleton that does touching.

There's no touching. No touching. Same matter. Can occupy some space. And he works at a porn shop?

Yeah. That was He's an interesting dude. Yeah. That was that was Give me the cash. That was like a very, like I don't know if that's, like, contrasting all these worlds and sort of, like, it'd be too on the nose if you worked at a whatever, but maybe it was like, let's really throw a monkey wrench in here.

And I I and I and he's kinda at that he looked like a young, very innocent looking guy, like, kinda his look was very sweet, a sweet look to him too. You know, someone you would not imagine. And I and again, I kinda like how they of course, you're going as very French, but I like that, again, that the porn shop wasn't depicted as kind of, like, tawdry whatever. It's not just It was very blah. It was very laissez faire like It was like it's a porn shop.

Okay. Yeah. This is normal here. You know who hasn't been to one in the back in the day, there was Yeah. I don't know.

This is this is the thing, like that I've been to a porn shop? Is that what it is? Oh, won't somebody please think of the children? I never. What the I don't even say that.

Fuck on this. I don't even say fuck. I don't know. Or I would never, but I just there's so much going on in this movie here as we were talking about, like, the the problem with dual screens and maybe the problem with my score is me. The it's like she has dinner with her dad and he's so checked out.

She talks about, like, having an abortion and smoking crack and he's like, yeah. That's nice. And the photo album thing with, like, who's the mysterious man in the photo album thing has been happening. And there's, like, a lot of story lines that, like, I think I'm not even touching on as we're talking about what we haven't touched on or I'm talking about. But the you know, now the glass bone man gets his first, like, VHS from Amelie.

Like, a a look at, like, the outside world or whatever. Something that's not the clock or painting the same thing over and over. And it's it's it's stuff like this, like, to a degree too where it's, like, maybe it's just my American, like, disposition or upbringing or whatever. But when Joseph, like, weirdly, like, grabs, like, grazes Georgette's, like, titty before anything's happened between them and you're, like, wait. What's going what?

What? No. That's a very French thing, I think. I think so too. I think I think so too.

And that's what I got from that too. The sex thing after that is pretty funny. But I Yeah. I do wanna say, Paul, because you said it earlier. There's no right or wrong way to write a script Absolutely.

To tell a story. Right. And I think this does break a lot of what we consider to be, like, standard structure. Yeah. And that's the thing is, like, some of it's my brain.

Yeah. Some of it's just my brain. Like, I'm willing to fully admit that. And but I also wanna make sure I say, like, I enjoyed the shit out of this movie, and it's really fucking good as we're talking about it. Yeah.

It's it's this fun kind of scavenger hunt to, like, find where Amelie wants to find Nino. Mhmm. And, like, figuring out where he works because she's looked through his photo album of all these found photos that he has, and she's starting to realize that this is probably her soulmate despite the fact that she likes the boy that works at the fruit stand, like, which is mentioned before. But that starts to develop and they have this first kind of thing where she does the Leslie Knope and Wyatt thing where she's calling him from the pay phone and the blue arrows just to get him as far away as possible. My god.

It was driving me nuts. I gotta admit it. What was? Well, I'm a romantic. So I'm which is this is so it's why I love it so much because I was like it was like watching a, you know, it's like watching a, well, it's like a romantic action movie in a way.

You're just like, oh my god. Like, yes. No. Please. Oh my god.

When is it gonna? When are they gonna? You know? And it and it and I love the way that they made that drawn out to the very last little stitch. I mean, are we allowed to talk about this part now?

Quick quick question. We're jumping around. So so so far. Around. Okay.

Intermissions can happen at any time. Jumping can happen at any time. Hey. Hey, Paul. I don't get mentally irregular.

It's a free country. Just don't get irregular. Alright? We just had a great episode when Harry met Sally with the wonderful Kimbo, special k. Really brought it for the people that picked it in the poll.

How do you feel about when Harry Met Sally? Have you seen it, Christina? Oh, yes. Of course. I've seen it.

Yes. Yes. Yes. You feel that that's effective at that same thing where it's just like, get together. Oh, god.

Yes. Yes. Okay. We felt that way too. And I feel that in this movie.

I just want to get to know him more. I want to see him more. Okay. I get I I do like this, like, the the dichotomy of their jobs, like her at the cafe and him at the porn shop and how it is to, like, break out of that doldrum day to day work thing and whatnot. And the way that she becomes the superhero for Lionel when she says to the shopkeep guy, fruit stand guy, like, even artichokes have hearts.

I was like, nice. Yes. That was really great. I think I don't need too much more about him because it's at least for me, this is where he's defeated in this moment, I think. Yeah.

No. I mean about, Nino. Nino. Yeah. Oh, okay.

I don't be because it's not necessarily about him. Sure. It's about her it's about her finally going after something that she wants. Yeah. Yeah.

That's a good point. Wow. That is a that yeah. You're showing the dead you're showing the dead in me right now, bro. He's got red on you.

Yeah. That was like, Ben Ben did this where he was, like, in my throat. Wow. That was really effective on the camera. It it's also just really things where it's like, we're so accustomed to and I'm not saying this about you, Paul.

I'm just saying as as a Oh, okay. I'm just saying, like, we're so accustomed to the female love interest having the the back seat and not getting a lot of information about them because Yeah. Who who the protagonist Sure. Is pursuing. And this is just kinda like Can I can I say really quick though my, like, my pieces from this is, like, I'm kinda like Gina from the cafe where I'm like, hey?

She's special, so we gotta talk. Yeah. That's kinda how I feel about it. Well and I think yeah. You know, you're no offense, Paul, but I agree with Paul.

No. No. But there's a cone I it's gonna circle back to this, but then also, Ben, when you mentioned, like, the the like, the structure of it. Like, I it's really refreshing to me to have something that is not this, like, linear thing where we're just like, you know? Yeah.

I love that's why bringing the charcuterie. It's that's not even the best analogy. But I felt like I was like, oh, what's like oh, is there gonna be a raindrop falling or a little bubble over here? Like, it's got it felt like it was like, is it gonna be like a, a, you know, it's like it was just like it's just like delicious in this way of like, oh, what's gonna fantastical. Like, I I think that's a word I I guess I would say.

And I love that kind of because, you know, it was just so lacking in that. And getting back to the love interest, Nino. Yeah. I I you hit on it too, Ben. It's like, it's not the story of, like, Nino and Amelie.

Nino and Amelie, like Yeah. In I was gonna say you've got mail, but, love or not love interest. Harry Met Sally. Harry Met Sally. I mean, it is Harry Met Sally.

And they're, like, tossing back and forth this thing, and they're best friends and But this movie's called Amelie. It just Yeah. Oh, what's wrong with me? This movie's called Amelie, not Amelie and fucking Nina. Give me the cash guy.

That No. Terrible. I I think Terrible. The again, going back to the actor, I felt like I read so much into him. Like, they cast it so beautifully because I felt my heart was already rooting for him.

I was rooting for him just from the first frame of him. Not sure why, but I was really rooting for him. And I it was like, no. No. No.

This is this, you know oh, I just I I oh god. When when she's in the train station and, like, she misses the chance to finally meet up with them Yeah. That shot where she's standing singularly in this expansive train station and there's no one else there, I mean, I just was like, I just, you know, I collapsed with her, you know. And usually I loved that. Well, they they've like you've I feel in that moment, I I'm with you, Christina, where it's like, oh, that it's finally gonna happen.

And he couldn't have gotten away that fast because, like, she has played this movie in her head about him and how everything's gonna go, which is fucking great as a latchkey kid and somebody who, references things all the time, books, movies, TV, whatever it is. My brain kinda works like that too where it breaks things up into some weird cinematic crazy hodgepodge. And the Nino's been to her work a couple times where she's like deflected him and what it's like this is where it starts getting like this is where I started it really starts affecting me that I want them to meet. By the way, that stone skipping that she does, which is CG, looks fucking fantastic. It looks great.

Right? It looks so good. I did not know that. This was really profound. There was a lot of profound things in it for me this time.

And the thing when the artist, blah blah blah, his name is bling blah blah blah blah. Rufus? I yeah. Rafael. Rafael.

Yeah. Rafael. Tell me. When he says that thing on the tape You didn't pay money for this. And prompts her, like, you gotta grab it when it otherwise, it's like these moments and blah, blah, blah, and it's like the catalyst for her to do make the bold move.

Like Yeah. Just I don't know. I know it was so simple and yet we're offered these moments every day of potential magic, of of potentiality. That's not even a word. Potentiality?

Yeah. It is. Potentiality. Yes. Potentialities is a word.

Potentiality. Yeah. Like, it's like it's I've had that a lot of job reviews, wasted potentiality. Yeah. Paul has wasted his potentiality once again.

But it it's it's that thing of, like, you don't know what taking that road is gonna lead to that thing, to that thing, to that thing, to the thing, like, the get butterfly effect or whatever. Nobody ever suspects the butterfly. Kismet, whatever you wanna say, I just I I like how that was delivered by that artist. Mhmm. How it was delivered in the way it prompted her, and then she was off.

And it was like and then the kissing that they had just was like Oh, that was, do you know what? Like, I love a horny movie. Oh. And this movie is not like a horny movie, but, like, that scene Oh. It's, like, really, really hot, like, to me.

And I also like, another scene that really resonated with me is the a big storyline in this movie is this guy who has all these photos in Nino's photo album that have been torn and crumpled and Yes. Is he a serial killer? Does he is he terrified of aging? What what's happening? And when Nino runs into him because of Amelie's treasure hunt, and Nino's so relieved that this guy's just a a photo booth repairman, like, the world is just as simple as as you'd assume.

This is all it is. Like, a great great reveal. Yeah. To to go, we're not gonna turn this into, like, a serial killer thing or whatever. This is this is what we are presenting it as.

But it also like, what I love what I love about this movie is that everybody's individual are so have such high stakes. Yeah. They're like, everybody It's about reclaiming their existence. Yeah. And and this this guy that haunts him in his in his in his photos because he's created just like her, creates this whole narrative.

Yep. Yeah. Like, we all do. Yep. Like, we all do.

Like, we all do. It's it has such a, you know, has such a simple banal, reason behind it. Yeah. It's almost like Makes me wanna watch Paul Schrader. Thank you for being banal.

It's almost the anti conspiracy theory movie, Paul. Yeah. You know I hate that. You know that I know that the rich oligarchs are actually the board of directors running the shitty fucking CEO of If you'd like to make a call, please hang up with my So the the Georgia and Joseph fighting thing never gets resolved as they they're, like, dating and humping at work and and everything. And I swear I think it's just supposed to be, like, this is a Yeah.

And I shit now. And I get it. Like, this is how it works for the two of them, but it just it bums me out that Georgette seems like she's like like I'm getting sick again. I'm getting rashes again. And I'm like, oh, that's not not great.

Amelie daydream while she's making the plum cake. Oh. And like where you think like he's about to walk in and it's the cat. And then she goes to the door and it is him. Oh.

Before they start kissing, like, that was super fucking satisfying to me. Oh, it was like that plum cake. I was wanting but I will say I wanna because you mentioned it, I have to circle back because yes, my favorite part and I will say that was one of the sexiest, sexiest, sexiest Yeah. I have seen in a movie. I used to say that, like, about Sex Lives in videotape, like, what a sexy movie that was and there was not an accounts of nudity.

No nudity in that movie at all. Oh my god. When she does the dot kisses on him and then he dot kisses on her and then the cat watching On the cat watching was anyone with an animal would appreciate. But Mhmm. That beautiful, simple, soul like, the knowing that I love that thing.

Again, I just go back to this kind of magical sort of otherworldly thing that can happen in life. It can happen. It's elusive, but it can happen. That's what they captured there, and it was. It was sexy.

It was beautiful, romantic. Like, hey, guys. Anyone listening, this is a good Valentine's. This might be a good if you're in the Yeah. If you're in the Valentine's, I know some people might not be.

We're right around the time anyway if you're celebrating a couple days after. The lights Oh, okay. The whims the whimsy and the colors and the fantastic in this and the The colors. I have another I have another log line for this movie. Stay with me here.

It's Paddington for adults. What do we think? Oh, I okay. I never saw a pad did I ever see Oh, Paddington Paddington Paddington with live human birth. Bear.

I know. You gotta you gotta see both you gotta see both Paddington and Paddington two before Paddington and Peru comes out. Paddington, was that a baby that just came out of there? Oh my god. Paddington's there.

I must've seen it. It's covered in marmalade. No. But it's an adult human man covered. I'm not I'm not bullshitting you.

Paddington two is a phenomenal movie. Both of them are great. Two is maybe slightly better, but they're both amazing. So the really cool thing about this movie for me also is we've talked about a lot of cool shit when the they're kinda creepily, the neighbors and stuff are watching Amelie, you know, make it with Nino. And she is finally able to be happy and move forward.

And then it shows her dad and all these other people that are happy and moving forward. And, it based on her relationship with them, which is really great. And then they go on that fucking bike ride and they break the fourth wall. And it's awesome because, frankly, if you don't break the fourth wall in this movie, it doesn't work as well. Mhmm.

There's something about like that this is like, hey, this is a fairy tale. We hope you're having fun. Like, that that comes across in those moments. Yeah. I agree.

I agree with that a hundred percent. And just the fact the way that she breaks it, again, with this very, like, specific whatever her thoughts are, it just reads so clearly. Somehow, I just what movie popped in my mind is Blades of Glory. I have no idea. Because I said Will Ferrell.

Is it Will Ferrell? Yeah. I was like, that would have been a fun one to rewatch because that's that's how it works. Forever. Yeah.

I know. I mean, like, oh my god. Amelie and the Blades of Glory. But, yes. That's a hell of a transition.

Right? That's one that's one character to another character. And I hopped off the car. Yeah. Ice rink.

But, yeah, because I do love that I do love that movie. Oh my god. But we're not talking about that now. Semi pros my, like, slightly unheralded Will Ferrell. Of course, it's basketball ride.

There you go. Eurovision Song Contest. Great movie. Great movie. I haven't seen it.

It's so good. If you have Netflix. It's Netflix. Right? Okay.

Good. Give that a give that a a spin. That's a good one. Okay. We're here.

It's the end. The end. I'll show you. The movie. They went on the bike ride.

They gave us the big smile and the big eyes, the big we're nice people, whimsical French people eyes. Yes. Christina. Yes. Yes.

I have a feeling I can guess that your score is not gonna change based on this conversation. No. That would mean oh, yeah. I'm doing okay. I better just not do some weird accent.

I am just gonna say no. It did not. Yeah. Okay. No.

It did not change. Okay? No. It didn't. Okay.

I am a little torn here partly because it's like, you know, that the way that the the haze that was over the movie in different colors at different times as I was watching really was like, stop it, but I guess not so much that I felt the need to bring it up much during this conversation. There's also a part of me that's like, do I like talking about this more than I like watching this? But I don't think that's a correct instinct. I can't do quarters, so I have to do the whole half. We're gonna go to a four and a half.

Four and a half travelocity gnomes. But you both made a lot of good points, but Ben ended up with, like, the slam dunk there. Mhmm. What was my slam dunk? Part of it a big part of it was when y'all got me to do the, like, oh, this movie is called Amelie.

And this is, like, her story. And some movies have a tendency to do this. And maybe that's kinda what's fucking with you or whatever. And, yeah. I don't know.

There were, like, just a lot of good points were made, but I think the main thing is kinda what, you were saying about the the juxtaposition of characters or expectations or, you know, taking things as they were and not what I thought they were going to be or what have you. Like, the thing that I I'm always striving to do when I am, consuming. I hate to use even that word. But, like, acting performances or music or movies or whatever. How do I feel about what I saw?

Really good. Four and a half Travelocity Gnomes. You you can add. I guess yeah. I thank you, Paul.

I'm so glad to hear that. And I agree, you know, Ben's point about that. He's I think, you know, more than anything, it's like when a movie offers me gives me the ability to really escape into it Mhmm. And really, like, be sort of almost like I walked actually, to be honest, after I watched it, I had to take the dogs out and I was walking around my neighborhood and I felt like I was in the movie. Oh, wow.

Yeah. I felt like I was That's cool. The movie. I didn't do any kind of mushrooms or anything like that. I swear That's a shame.

That's a real shame. Anything except a cup of tea Cocaine. And I felt like I was in the movie and and I that always says something to me. And it's a really weird maybe I gotta look at that, but I Ben? Yeah.

It's you now, buddy. Christina, you said something earlier that you where, like, we don't get a lot of movies that are just, like, about, like, love or full of joy. And and I think, like, it's true. We'd like and this movie isn't without tragedy. Right?

Like, her mother gets killed tragically. But Early. Yeah. But it but it does the it does the thing where it's, like, it's really hard to do, which is what like, walk this tight rope of tone where it's it's just saying it's, like, just saying, like That's a really good point too, man. It's so committed to the tone.

It really is. That's such a good point. Yeah. Yes. It was like, this is how we're doing it and this is how we're doing it.

Come on. I sorry. I didn't go here. No. I mean yeah.

And it's like it we're getting the same five 15 people orgasming in within a couple minutes of her mom getting, killed. And I think Yeah. It's just kind of presenting, like, the life. This is life. And it, like, you know, and I think It's tragic.

But it but it but it doesn't. But it doesn't in a way that doesn't feel abrasive or, like, oppressive or, like, toxic positivity or anything like it. Just kind of right. It just kinda, like, does it. Again, it all comes back to how she sees the world, which I think is why the movie is so whimsy whimsical.

I think I I think I might go to five. Woah. Good. I'm like I'm like Woah. I'm trying to find a reason not to go to five and I'm This is like a resounding success.

I'm having a hard time finding the reason to go to five. I Just just because the more you think I just the more I think about the movie, the more, like Yeah. There's nothing thematically in the movie that's out of place to me. Mhmm. Except that maybe you could say that end of that relationship that we didn't get a full, bookend on.

But I I perceive that as being like, oh, but now they're just in a relationship and they have to, like, manage it. It has a European kind of sensibility or what have you to it or some sort of something there. And I like that's the for me, the only thing that I think keeps me from going to the five other other than, like, I wanna say it again too as other people touched on it. Music, great. Oh, yeah.

But, like, some of the filters are a little bit weird, and it's, like, a little dense for me with with certain things at times or whatever. But fucking, hey, it's so good. Yeah. Can I can I just say one more thing? Yep.

One thing. One thing. Okay. One thing is Okay. We're done.

Okay. Is that I I guess my my closing statement is that I appreciate and it's what you were saying that it's like well, you're both saying is like, look, I cannot stand toxic positivity. Like, I I it it it offends me in so many ways. And but what this manage so therefore, what this managed to do was show the nuance, the complexity of life, the tragedy of life Mhmm. And the kind of truths that, like, you can have a tragic thing over here and then the cat can purr and you have a moment of a moment of that appreciating that simple beauty of the cat purring.

And I love that juxtaposition of the truth of life is that it's awful and messy and horrible. And at the same time, there's, like, beauty and magic and oddball things that happen. And just someone that's going through grief personally, the things that get me through, not only, obviously, the most important friends and family, but the little tiny, tiny things, the one of the dog's ears flipped up in a certain way will be a thing that can light me up. The way a creme brulee cracks under a teaspoon. Exactly.

It can just be something like that that can just turn your fucking day around. It can just turn it. Enough so that you can get through to the next moment. A wonderful chat with pals on a fucking fantastic podcast. I don't say fuck.

I can't say fuck. Oh, lord. Christina, is there anything else you wanna mention or mention again or anything like that before we go? No. I just was so grateful to be a part of this.

I so appreciate the conversation. It was so it was so refreshing and enlightening and you guys are fantastic and wow, you know you know your stuff and, it makes me want to go through my list of other movies that I I'm not realizing about, Il Postino and, Life is Beautiful and, Blades of Glory. You can be our foreign movie well, maybe not Blades of Glory, but you can be our foreign movie when we need to be highfalutin'. Okay. We'll come back to you first and foremost.

For it. I love it. Ted, I'm really grateful. Thank you guys so much for inviting me to Beyond. You you guys are awesome, and I I feel honored.

So thank you. Oh, thank you. Well, thank you. And thank you for bringing this movie back into my orbit. I'm so happy that I could revisit it and that Jess owns it, and it's one of her favorite movies.

So Beautiful. Really, was a was it's fun to jump back into that. Big upgrade from your, first viewing experience. Yeah. Yeah.

Good. Good. Great. Dude, I was 18 and full of You said I could let that down. Something.

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