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Learning to Love 'The Swan'
Nov. 12th, 2015 09:44 pm(This post is for The Wonderful Grace Kelly Blogathon at The Wonderful World of Cinema).
The Swan is a movie that took a long time to grow on me. At first I liked it solely for the costumes and the cast (much the same way I like Downton Abbey). Who couldn't like that cast? Grace Kelly! Alec Guinness! Louis Jourdan! Agnes Moorehead, Jessie Royce Landis, Estelle Winwood . . . it's an embarrassment of riches. But the actual story -- that left me cold . . . as cold as Grace's character, Princess Alexandra "the Iceberg," supposedly is.( Read more... )
The Swan is a movie that took a long time to grow on me. At first I liked it solely for the costumes and the cast (much the same way I like Downton Abbey). Who couldn't like that cast? Grace Kelly! Alec Guinness! Louis Jourdan! Agnes Moorehead, Jessie Royce Landis, Estelle Winwood . . . it's an embarrassment of riches. But the actual story -- that left me cold . . . as cold as Grace's character, Princess Alexandra "the Iceberg," supposedly is.( Read more... )
