October was an incredible super busy month, but I survived it and it was great!
This cactus took forever to bloom, the buds where standing there for over a month, but the wait was worthy! I loved how within the large flower there is another tiny flower
There were a lot of epic cat naps! This spring brought a lot of autumnal vibes with it, which were awesome, in Leti's opinion.
One morning the garden was looking so pretty and shiny and green that it made me want to take out one of my neglected dolls for a little photo shoot.
That very same morning I had Perla by my side, also seizing de sunshine.
Aaaaand we had which was the event of the year for us: my friend Morena got married! It was just 2 weeks ago but it seems like forever. The entire month was constantly thinking about it, hurrying with preparations. It was the first wedding I actually enjoyed, probably because was the first one I shared with my friends, and of course, because one of us was getting marrieeeeedd!!! It is still crazy, but it happened, and it was awesome.
This hasn’t been a good year for me at the moment of watching movies.
None of these movies were watched in one sitting. Some of them were watched in more times that I’d like to admit, but this has nothing to do with their quality for entertainment, but to my inability to stay awake during movies at night (I blame college). After this lame preface, I must say the movies I saw make a nice bunch.
Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances McDormand), a middle-aged London governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job. An attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse (Amy Adams) (from IMDb)
Miss Pettigrew is hired by Delysia as her social secretary (or something like that), to help her get the gig she’s after and try to make some order in her chaotic sentimental life of three lovers. And, as is set in the title, the entire plot happens in one day (which is a bit crazy considering Miss Pettigrew’s situation around the end, but ok, suspension of disbelief).
The movie is set in the proximity of WW2 (or during, I can’t remember), and most characters, all very young, are living like nothing is happening and everything will be alright. The elder characters, however, say something like “they’re too young to remember the other one” (WW1) and are not quite at ease.
This movie is based on a same titled novel, written by Winifred Watson, which I haven’t read.
My entire reason to watch this movie was this guy:
And I like Amy Adams too, but mostly what I said.
Of course I will
I really liked the movie, and on my personal record I gave it ⅗
Lady Susan Vernon (Kate Beckinsale) takes up temporary residence at her in-laws' estate and, while there, is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica -- and herself too, naturally. (from IMDb)
I was eager to watch this movie since I first heard of it. It’s based on Jane Austen’s epistolary novel Lady Susan, which wasn’t adapted to screen until now. Let’s say that from the first moment I hated that they change the original title, because Love and freindship (sic) is another epistolary novel by Austen, but ok, whatever.
Despite that little pet peeve, the movie is AMAZING. I’m biased, of course, because I think that Austen, specially in this novel, is pure genius, and I’ve loved some of the previous works by Whit Stillman, the director. The movie is, additionally, aesthetically orgasmic.
Between the little details that I loved loved loved, are the introduction to the characters
that when someone was reading out loud the words appeared on screen
and that so many of the things said were copied word by word from the book (ahh, so satisfying!)
In the 1930s, a Bronx native moves to Hollywood and falls in love with a young woman who is seeing a married man(from IMDb)
Woody Allen’s annual movie. Bobby (Jesse Eisenberg) from NY, goes to LA trying to find a job in Hollywood with the help of his uncle (Steve Carrell), who runs an agency and hires him as his assistant, and asks Bonnie (Kirsten Stewart) to show him around the city. Bobby falls in love with Bonnie, and when things don’t work out, he goes back to NY to work with his brother, who runs a nightclub and is also a gangster (I loved his subplot, btw)
The movie is ok, sort of bittersweet, and aesthetically appealing as usual, and I actually wanted to watch it because I like seeing Jesse Eisenberg alongside Kirsten Stewart (this is their third film together)
