Misericordia
A review of Babel in Emotional Weather Report, today in the Star.
Movies I saw recently that I did like: Children of Men (very smart, stripped of all unnecessary exposition, the rare life-affirming bummer, with a terrific performance by Clive Owen), Little Children (ooh the Prom King), Stranger Than Fiction (although it had the look of a Nokia ad), The Illusionist (many of the same premises as The Prestige, but less fussy and ponderous) and Alatriste (Viggo Mortensen in Spanish! Swords! Imperial wars! Warning: Do not watch it with a Monty Python geek because Nnnnno one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise, fear and surprise. . .Our two chief weapons are fear and surprise and a ruthless efficiency. . .Seriously, I was beginning to annoy myself.)
Alatriste is based on the series by Arturo Perez-Reverte. Here’s an excerpt from the first book, Captain Alatriste.