The Duchess and I watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind last night. Wow. The film suffers from a few longueurs, and shouldn't be seen by anyone on Suicide Watch. Those caveats aside, it's my fave postmodern film since Being John Malkovich. Which made sense, when I found out today that Charlie Kaufman had done both films. I think it blows away Adaptation. I just saw on his filmography that Kaufman is also lined up to do a joint project with Spike Jonez. Life is good.
Less good was Junichiro Tanizaki's Some Prefer Nettles. I've been getting into Japanese Lit for a couple of years, but this one was a bit of a let-down. I think my impression suffered because I've been reading primarily Japanese Po-Mo stuff, and this was written in the early 20th. I should have been thinking more Steinbeck and less Murakami. Maybe the translation was flat, too. I'm going to read a couple more before passing judgement.
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