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Down With Love

Honeyfields and I just watched Down With Love, written by Eve Ahlert and Dennis Drake, directed by Peyton Reed and starring Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor.

I was interested in seeing this movie when it was in the theater, but we didn't get around to it then. After seeing it today, we both loved it. The movie has clever writing, solid acting and develops an amazing world. As the director says in the special features, the movie portrays New York as it was seen in the movies of the sixties -- it cuts a fine line between reality and camp and pulls it all off. The clothes are beautiful and the sets are amazing. It's particularly telling that several of the people involved in the production, notably the costume designer, Daniel Orlandi, and Michael Shaiman, who wrote the score, said something like, "This was the movie I was born to work on."

Good movie.

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