Rather a funny title, but did you know that there really is a movie called Housekeeping? Such a dreamy, sleeper film which came and went and now plays at dreadful times like 3 a.m. on TV. It deserves better than the Late Night Graveyard.
Roger Ebert liked Housekeeping. He's not one to scatter gold stars around like bread crumbs for birds, but he gave it four-out-of-four stars. Here is his review.
Eleven years ago Tom and I watched Housekeeping together. On a Tuesday, I think. At odd, quiet times on Wednesday he shook his head and said, "That was a strange movie. Really weird."
A couple times on Thursday, out of the silence he said the same thing. I just smiled. I couldn't shake it off of me either-- I didn't want to.
When you reach the part where Sylvie and Ruthie cast off in the little row boat out upon the cold, early-morning lake, it's as though suddenly you've walked into someone's dream. And you know you won't be able to escape until that someone awakens--yet you hope they never do. Especially the end being what it is.
Do I have you intrigued?
Housekeeping was taken from a first novel by Marilynne Robinson. You read her similies and hang your head because you know yours will never sing like hers, nor be as luscious--like mind sorbet.
The movie or the book--take your pick. Both will make you feel like a teenager with a hundred dreams on the threshold of birth.
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For more reviews about Housekeeping, click here. (Scroll down, down, down...)
yes, you have me intrigued... :o)
ReplyDeleteby the way, i love the pictures you have been using lately, they are lovely and so detailed ... i could get lost in a good painting - make up stories and situations ... day dreaming is a lost art form, i'm afraid ...