April 22, 2012

• Amsterdam, Netherlands

  

  Yes! It worked! Not once, but twice! I finally was able to use my Cineville pass today, and for good measure I didn't see just one but two films today. After a lazy Sunday morning at home and in the Coffee Company store, I walked over to Rialto in the early afternoon. I went to see Wuthering Heights there, based on the Emily Brontë novel. It was a stunning film, though once more with that horrible handheld shaky camera effect just a bit too often. For most of the film I was wondering where it was shot. Despite the fact that none of the actors had a real Scottish accent and Liverpool was mentioned at some point in the film, I was thinking it might have been filmed somewhere in Scotland, but the closing titles revealed that it was actually filmed in the Yorkshire Dales. In any case, it looked stunning... quite possibly worth a visit!

  After Wuthering Heights I walked over to Zuiderbad for a swim, then back home for a quick meal, and on to the next film theatre, The Movies. Once more I tried to go and Intouchables... and once more I didn't succeed. Sold out. I saw that A Dangerous Method about the interaction between three of the most famous psychotherapists at the beginning of the 20th century, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud and Sabina Spielrein (herself a severe psychiatric patient at the start of the film) was showing at the same time and got a ticket to go and see that one. It was a great film, wonderfully filmed in Vienna and Zurich, with a story line that was sometimes a bit on the heavy side... but very interesting none the less. The picture is of Cafe 't Smalle on Egelantiersgracht and it was taken as I walked back home through a beautiful looking Amsterdam.

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