Saturday, December 12, 2009

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Cutting Back

I was soooo tired last night I went to bed at 7pm and didn't get up until 11: 30 and then was only up a short time.

My husband and I started a business and it's going fine, just going to take a short break from the blog for December 2009. I"ll post when I get the chance, but it wont be 5 days a week this month. Hopefully I can get some rhythm down and get back soon.

In the mean time, please read through my lists of Gem and Good films. I'm sure you'll find something you like. Happy Holidays for all those who celebrate.

Thanks.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009


I wanted to like this Ben Cross and Amy Irving saga of a British boy raised among locals in India. After his parents die, his life is saved by his nursemaid until she dies and he returns to the British.

We meet, Ash, again all grown up and in the military. He's returning to India to the same area he lived as a boy. Assigned with taking a spoiled woman and her sister to be married off, he falls in love with the sister who is actually his long lost childhood love.

Things get complicated and she decides to marry in order to protect her sister. He leaves her there and goes off to Afghanistan to spy for the British. They ignore his advice and find themselves garrisoned without support and rebels break into the compound and kill many. He helps some escape.

His lady love gets him a message that she's being mistreated and he goes to rescue her. The old man they are married to dies and her sister intends to die on the funeral pyre with him and she's left orders that her sister must watch then be killed.

I thought all the cultural ins and outs were fascinating but honestly, it went on way too long, had too many plots and subplots and seemed far fetched. Amy Irving does an excellent job, but many of the other actors played the scenes far too melodramatic for my taste.

Bandon has the DVD and there's a VHS copy in Lakeside.

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086711/

Buy the DVD from Amazon: The Far Pavilions