The Constant Gardner

Since rejoining Netflix, Buster and I have become movie junkies, we've been watching a movie every night. Last night I introduced him to Taxi Driver w/ DeNiro, and Jodie Foster. It had been YEARS since I saw it. I didn't remember that Cybil Shepard, Albert Brooks and Harvey Kietel were in it. Classic Scorsese.

We didn't have any Netflix movies to watch tonight so we went to the Admiral and saw The Constant Gardner.



I had never heard of it but was pleasantly surprised what a fine (and artsy) film it was. I really liked the way they used depth of field and focus to switch foreground and background images. Also the use of color to create contrast between some scenes with vivid colors and others (usually flashbacks or memories) with a washed out over lit scenes. Very cool!

Good script, good acting, good camera work, good editing, good directing. AND we got to see some killing! everything I like in a movie.