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  An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde One of his best plays, hence 9 out of 10   If you want to know about An Ideal Husband, I’d say that this play is not so enlightening, not in the sense of how he should me. At least I did not get that much on what I should or ought not to do. The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work, a classic psychology book by the amazing John Gottman would be of much more help. But then, I guess the main message of Oscar Wilde’s play is exactly that there is no ideal husband and we all make (sometimes huge) mistakes. Sir Robert Chiltern is supposed to be the prototype of An Ideal Husband, with his high standing and important position in society. He is a Member of Parliament with a lot of influence, much admired speeches and an excellent family life. Until a woman comes along. I have read about the play and learned that even if it is one of Wilde’s most popular and appreciated, it had its share of criticism. For being sexist, for instance since women do n...

  The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles is one of The Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels, it is also part of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read compilation, and it is ranked 619 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site – you find thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where I have to recommend my macaws   9 out of 10   I have already been impressed by The Sheltering Sky https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/sheltering-sky.html and now I have just finished it for the second time, this time it was read by wonderful Oscar Winner Jennifer Connelly, she won it for her role in A Beautiful Mind   It is an interesting experience, taking a chef d’oeuvre up for a second time (why not, for many more times) because I could not remember – for some masterpieces, I have scenes that are still vivid, say the door closing when...

  MRS SALAD came each year to get her present from Gerald before luncheon on Christmas Eve. It was always the same present - a five-pound note and a large pink cyclamen in a gilded basket tied with pink ribbon. This year, Gerald had attempted a variation by presenting her with a scarlet poinsettia, but he knew at once that he was wrong. 'Oh, it's a lovely foreign thing. Bright as blood,' Mrs Salad said in her old, croaking tremolo, and she peered at it through the haze of mascara'd moisture that always clung to her eyelashes and stuck in little beads on her black net eye-veil. 'I dare say it'll draw the flies. But lovely for them that likes bright colours. Just like the stuff the girls put on their finger-nails now. Like a lot of old birds giving the glad in the Circus, or the York Road, Waterloo, more likely. Trollopy lot.' And Mrs Salad's black-dyed curls and fur toque with eye-veil shook in disgust, though whether against the painted nails of the ...

  85 out of 100 for A High Wind in Jamaica | realini

  Liar Liar written by Paul Guay and Stephen Mazur is an entertaining comedy, if not one of the best, I am more interested here in how the free world has the ultimate Liar Liar at the top now, so you have been warned – you find thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   7 out of 10   Jim Carrey https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-truman-show-by-andrew-niccol-my.html is one of the greatest thespians, and although he is best known for his comedy roles, he has been outstanding in The Truman Show (again, one of the best motion pictures), Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind   He is Liar Liar here, Fletcher Reede, a lawyer who wants to become partner in the firm, and more generally, he is ambitious to the point where nothing else seems to matter, he neglect his son, the spouse will get a divorce and mayb...

  Marie Antoinette, written and directed by Sofia Coppola Marie Antoinette was nominated for the most relevant cinema award at the 2006 Festival, the coveted:                  The Palme D’Or For this film buff, this nomination means that Marie Antoinette was one of the best motion pictures of 2005. However, the production was controversial, even if it won an Academy Award in the technical arena. It has to be admitted that there are two ways to look at this movie and indeed, at anything else:                 “ There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so ” – Hamlet On the one hand, the interpretation of the magnificent Sofia Coppola is rather phantasmagoric, postmodern maybe. It is an astonishing contrast between Marie Antoinette and The Beguiled, the latter launched in 2017. Sofia Coppola has won the Cannes Festiva...