This City Never Sleeps
Friday, March 31, 2006 @ Peach Blossom Land
Catched Les Poupees Russes aka Russian Dolls at The Cathay yesterday. Gosh! The last time i visited The Cathay was close to 6 years ago. Oh well, i didn't catch a movie at The Cathay, but at The Picturehouse. (Come to think of it, the size of Picturehouse has shrunk terribly from 273 seat hall with a big screen and a small stage to a mere 82 seater tiny winny lecture theatre, with the size of the screen so small, that it is comparable to the screen at LT19 of TP Biz.) I catched Sausalito, a HK romantic drama with director Andrew Lau paired Leon Lai and Maggie Cheung together, as a IT specialist and a female cabbie seeking true love in Sausalito, a small town in San Francisco.

6 years later, Shu Qi and Chang Chen takes the lead in the New Picturehouse. Instead of paying them a visit in their 3 Times, i choose the land with tonnes of Euro babes. I got Audrey Tautou (as usual) with a new target: Cecile De France, Kelly Reilly and Evguenya Obraztsova.

Well, to know the show better, you must first catch L'auberge Espagnole aka Spanish Apartment, which features the same dudes and babes in Russian Dolls. While Spanish Apartment talks about the life of a group of teens who came from different cultural background lived together in an apartment, Russian Dolls shines them on adulthood, where all becomes working adults. Xavier, the main character of the film, still finds himself single at 30. After breaking up with Martine, his ex-gf, he is involved in an entangled relationship between Isabelle (a lesbo), Wendy (his UK hot chick), Ceila (a model) and Natasha (a Russian ballet dancer.) At the same time, he laid on strangers who he fancys, and thus inviting disaster for himself.

Eventually, he had Wendy, while Wendy's brother William marrys Natasha. The End.



Viola, you got: Xavier in the middle. Isabelle on his left, Wendy in the middle bottom, Celia on bottom right, Natasha right, Martine top right hand corner and finally Kassia, a sales assistant whom Xavier dates in Kookai, a boutique.

While Audrey Tautou reminds me of former Mediacorp actress Lin Mei Jiao in her younger days, Cecile De France can be my beautiful wife, Kelly Reilly as my tea time khaki and Evguenya Obraztsova...as my younger sister. :)

Only if i am fortunate enough for my wish to be fufilled.


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