The Little Hours
June. 30,2017 R
Garfagnana, Italy, 1347. The handsome servant Masseto, fleeing from his vindictive master, takes shelter in a nunnery where three young nuns, Sister Alessandra, Sister Ginevra and Sister Fernanda, try unsuccessfully to find out what their purpose in life is, a conundrum that each of them faces in different ways.
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i must have seen a different film!!
In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
There are way too many people in this world who confuse sarcastic, cynical meanness with wit.If you're interested in one-note Aubrey Plaza and her stale caustic deadpan routine this will be right up your alley.
I loved almost every minute of this movie, from all of John C. Reilly's scenes, to Dave Franco's very descriptive confession of the affair his character to he, to Aubrey Plaza's emo nun moments. However, the ending is awful! Sure, it's happy, the nuns go and save Dave Franco from being tortured in a dungeon, but it doesn't show them sneaking in or anything, it just cuts to them rescuing him, and it goes off without a hitch. There's no chase scene or anything, they just get away. And then it doesn't wrap the story up it just shows them running off. Other than that, hilarious movie, definitely recommend it.
First, I'm giving this a 7 out of 10 even though it really was more like a 6, simply because I felt it had a lot of heart. The cinematography was good and gave a nice sense of place and atmosphere. I loved the music! The acting was fine by the five or six leads (depending on who you consider a lead) and some of the (mostly ad-libbed) lines were humorous. However, as IMDB trivia states, this film was based on The Decameron, which I've never read, so many of the in-jokes probably flew way above my head without my knowledge. I'm pretty well-read, and understand film and literature theory, but I'm sure I missed at least 1/2 of the references or jokes simply because I haven't read the stories. Additionally, if this film were a take on, say Sherlock Holmes or even The Odyssey, I could see a lot more people understanding it, but I don't know how this got green-lit being a modern-day spoof of a 14th century book with a hundred or so different tales... sort of like if the Farrelly Bros. took a stab at The Canterbury Tales.But again, I liked what I could get out of it and I simply adored that music score.
You just don't get it. It was great! Absurd and irreverent and perfectly on point
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