--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm a little out of touch as to new films to > recommend for your summer viewing, but if you > haven't seen an older one called 'The Advocate,' > you've missed out. I'm watching for the seventh > or eighth time tonight, so it's on my mind.
I'm not reading any more of this post...I don't want to know anything more about this movie. I've just put it as #2 on my Netflix Queue so I should get it this week...medieval courtroom drama? I'm there! > > The Advocate is one of those great films that > sadly never found an audience. Renaming the > film 'The Hour of the Pig' in an attempt to > rerelease it didn't help. :-) But it's a > wonderful tale, based on the real life of a > lawyer in France who went on to become the > most famous jurist of his time. During the > period covered by this film, he's a bright, > rational man who has become bored with the > high life of Paris and 'retires' to the > south of France. He thinks that there he can > have a quiet life and relax. What, after all, > could be so hard about being the public > defender of a small village, circa 1450? > > Well, his first client is a peasant accused > of murder, his second is a woman accused of > witchcraft. And his third is a pig, accused > of murder. > > Suffice it to say it just gets better from > there, creating a film full of wit and great > performances. The lawyer is played by the > always-great Colin Firth, who interacts with > a priest-ahead-of-his-time, played by the > equally-reliable Ian Holm. Throw in a couple > of nemeses played by the likes of Donald > Pleasance and Nicol Williamson, and you've > got yourself quite a murder mystery indeed. > > Babe alert for Shemp -- Amina Annabi. Not > to be missed... > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
