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(e)Book – Love and friendship

  (e) Book –  Love and friendship Full title :  Love and friendship and other early works Author : Jane Austen Score : /10 Year : 1790 (original) ; 2012 (this edition) Publisher : Duke Classics   ISBN  978-1-62012-155-9  // 9781620121559  (ebook)  Pages :  Language: English Jane Austen is best known for her 6 novels, which all have been adapted into tv movies - but after having read Virginia Woolf's short fiction in chronological order, I decided to apply the same for Austen's publications, to better appreciate her growth and evolution in narrative style. So, before reading her novels which were released from 1811 to 1817, in the following order :  Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma,  Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, I decided to go back to her teenage years, reading Love and Friendships, and other early works.
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Movie – Zelig



Movie – Zelig

Score : 6/10  
Year : 1983
Director:  Woody Allen
Country: USA
Language: English. (German in some segments). 
Duration: 1h19 

Writers: Woody Allen

The life of Leonard Zelig (Woody Allen), a human chameleon - a man who transforms himself according tho the people around him - is treated by Dr Eudora Fletcher (Mia Farrow), a psychiatrist who searches an explanation for his odd disorder.

Woody Allen's fascination sets this mockumentary  in the 1920-30's and is mixes that period's black & white newsreels and archives, alternating with modern-day interviews (1983) in color segments.

Both real and fictional characters appear, and the movie is narrated by Patrick Horgan.

Zelig explores an individual's need for approval and the shifts society can have towards any given person.  

I liked the social comments, and quirky direction and acting, but hated the music : I never liked that periods jazz & swing music, but they were appropriate to the movie setting, evidently. 

I cannot comment image or sound qualities as the dvd I borrowed at the media library were poor.






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