Tag Archives: Judi Dench

too much chocolate can be dangerous to your health (film: Chocolat – Lasse Hallström, 2000)

Posted on January 24, 2024 by admin

‘Chocolat‘ (2000) is one of those very successful films that I should have seen at their time and that somehow I missed, caught up in the whirlwind of my previous lives. I kept putting it off, but now its turn … Continue reading →

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a big story, a failed movie (Film: Red Joan – Judi Dench, 2018)

Posted on May 15, 2019 by admin

Trevor Nunn, the director of ‘Red Joan‘, had in his hands a huge story. He also had in the cast Judi Dench, a great actress in a role that seemed to have been written for her. The film starts very … Continue reading →

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an impossible love story (Film: Victoria and Abdul – Judi Dench, 2017)

Posted on September 25, 2017 by admin

The history of England was blessed with several famous queens – starting with head-losers Anne Boleyn and Mary Stuart, continuing the two Elisabeth’s and of course Queen Victoria, the record holder of longevity until recently, the queen who gave her … Continue reading →

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21st century Bond (Film: Skyfall – James Bond, 2012)

Posted on November 24, 2012 by admin

The century is the 21st according to one of the popular counting methods and ‘Bond, James Bond’ is still spoken from the screen by a man dressed in a tuxedo with a glass of a selected cocktail in hand. Yet, … Continue reading →

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