Re: More Opera for Cinplex...
Sir Novelty:
Come on in!
Pull up a chair!
There's beer in the fridge!
Scratch and belch if you want to!
Well, she was totally nuts, yeah. I wouldn't want to be married to her, would you? But all that glorious music rising up and inhabiting the hall, the "musical ride", the rat-poisoning, the black humour, the stench of death from the basement, the sad legend-in-his-own-mind drunk and a more realistic take on the "drinking song" than we usually see, the Keystone Kopsky scene ( where Stalin, sensing a piss-taking, walked out of a performance, apparently ), that oh-so Russian ending, etc. - what's not to like about that wacky old 20th century?