Goodreads need to get their shit together.
For reference, a 5 is like Banjo-Kazooie... Perfect and Rare π»π¦
I don't have words. How will romance on screen ever come close again to what I've just witnessed? It's truly incredible how much CΓ©line Sciamma can display in so little. A brief glance, a half smile, the curve of a chin.
The lack of music is a stroke of genius. Fire crackle and crashing waves are magically magnified in our minds, making the surroundings for Marianne and HΓ©loΓ―se so calm yet so electrically charged. And it is this almost constantβ¦
"There's no hurry you see. We have all the time in the world."
You could be forgiven for dismissing On Her Majesty's Secret Service upon first watching. I certainly did. Brought up in the Piers Brosnan era, Bond for me was flashy stunts, camp dialogue and balls-to-the-walls action, and I loved it. It wasn't until Casino Royale that I really gleaned just what a Bond film could be, how it could make me feel.
Revisiting On Her Majesty's Secret Serviceβ¦
Riddle me this
Riddle me that
Sad noone said
Hey it's da Bat!
(Also Paul Dano and Colin Farrell fucking killed it)