Rachel Getting Married written by Jenny Lumet, directed by Jonathan Demme has an outstanding Metascore of 85 out of 100, which means critics loved this and I agree, it is a rara avis, unlike most features we can see, unpredictable, inventive, a treat – more than five thousand reviews of movies and books are available on my blogs https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html

 

Rachel Getting Married written by Jenny Lumet, directed by Jonathan Demme has an outstanding Metascore of 85 out of 100, which means critics loved this and I agree, it is a rara avis, unlike most features we can see, unpredictable, inventive, a treat – more than five thousand reviews of movies and books are available on my blogs https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html

 

 

9 out of 10

 

The director of this special motion picture is Jonathan Demme, best known for the classic Silence of the Lambs https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2023/12/silence-of-lambs-based-on-novel-by.html a film so popular, even the ignorant Orange Woland has seen it, indeed, he keeps referring to Hanibal Lecter, but as if this was a respectable fellow

Anne Hathaway has the difficult leading role of Kym, although Rachel is Getting Married (portrayed by Rosemarie DeWitt, like all the cast she is formidable), it is sister Kym that has the spotlight for most of the time

 

Diary of a Mad Dive by Joan Rivers https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/diary-of-mad-diva-by-joan-rivers.html is an interesting, if flawed book on Hollywood, and as far as I can remember, Anne Hathaway is attacked there

The latter seems to have been unpopular, and if we use ChatGPT or one of those new AI assistants (by the way, I have read in The Economist that they could kill Google and maybe the internet, or at least the model for it) we may find the reasons, speculation, fake news and all of the above about the reasons for this

 

I am jumping from one thing to another -ergo here is a spoiler alert, who knows where I will end up with this, if anywhere – but yesterday I was reading about Gwyneth Paltrow and a new book on her, which reveals her love of money (actually, easy to figure that one out, since she is so into this silly Goop, and now Porte parole for that AI firm with the CEO, the kiss and the Coldplay concert) and how she picked up the Se7en role

The issue was if she would date Brad Pitt (they did for some years afterwards) or Keanu Reeves – he was in the alternative, something with Minnesota – and then about Shakespeare in Love, where I know a different version from one to be published soon, but let us get back to Rachel, at least for a moment, before something else pops up

 

Rachel Getting Married means that Kym shows up, albeit she was not really expected, since this complex personage has had, still has issues with addiction and a troubled communication with others – Rachel had picked a bridesmaid

Kym is unhappy to hear she is not the one, but then, how could they know she will even be present, there is ambivalence here, they have all kinds of speeches at the rehearsal – I am thinking now of another, spectacular film (one of my favorites) which has these scenes before and at the wedding, About Schmidt

 

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jack Nicholson is divine as this pensioner, who sees his only daughter married to a sort of bizarre figure, who has a more than eccentric mother – Oscar Winner Kathy Bates, though she won this for Misery, which will have a note posted soon

Kym appeared embarrassing to this cinephile, when she talked and talked about her addiction, the strained connection with family and well, everything, and that seemed so self-centered – come on, it is your sister’s matrimonial event, not a gathering with those steps, which she mentions with so much else, but then this is a formidable motion picture

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – I am on Goodreads as Realini Ionescu, at least for the moment, if I keep on expressing my views on Orange Woland aka TACO, it may be a short-lived presence

Also, maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the benefits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’