Gosford Park

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January 19, 2002

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Saw Gosford Park tonight. Most enjoyable, except I, too, had trouble understanding the dialog. They really should provide subtitles for movies with English actors.

I bet Robert Altman had fun making this comedy satirizing a 1930s British weekend house and shooting party on an immense estate, a Jewish Hollywood director of Charlie Chan movies who got himself invited in order to research his next film and Poirot murder mysteries. I wonder how the movie will be received in England. Altman took some pretty funny shots at the manners and morals of the classes in Great Britain. But I guess no more than they routinely poke fun at themselves.