Happy Wednesday + "The Old Gun"

Happy Late Wednesday Night, my Darling,

I hope you had a nice day. As usual with me, nothing much to report. I did take The Kobester to the groomer and he came back looking super cute. She shaved a lot of his fur off cause it was getting too long, so now he looks all skinny and puppylike.

I watched a movie tonight called "The Old Gun". It was a French film, made in 1975 by a director I had never heard of named Robert Enrico. It is the story of a surgeon (played by famous French actor Phillipe Noiret) in Occupied France during WW2. He moves his wife (played by the tragic Romy Schneider) and daughter out to the countryside after he is threatened by a Nazi-complicit member of the French police. The surgeon owns an old run down castle and sequesters his family there in the hope that they will be safe til war's end. Unfortunately, it doesn't work out that way. There is a massacre in the local country town, and so the horrified and grief stricken Noiret goes on a rampage against the Waffen SS perpetrators, using an "Old Gun" (hence the title) that he remembers stashing in his castle.

I was expecting more of a "basic WW 2 film", which led me to order it from the Libe, and it was pretty good in all it's production values and Noiret, a great actor, carried the film well. But really it was more of a revenge movie, like the popular "Death Wish" films of the 70s, in which a horrific violent family tragedy is set up, and then avenged by the Surviving Male. You could call "The Old Gun" "Death Wish Goes To Nazi Germany" and it would be a fairly apt title, although it is nowhere near as cheesy. But it is super violent, with some scenes befitting a nightmarish horror film ala "Don't Go In The House".

Anyhow, to sum up : Had never heard of it. Ordered from the Libe cause of Always Googling for WW2 films. Solid direction/production values. Noiret is great throughout. Story is okay, but basically plays like a "Death Wish" revenge film, and is very graphic in places.

That was really all the news today.

I saw your post of the beautiful Labradoodle doggie - such a noble looking dog - and that is wonderful that it will be going into service for your friend. Dogs rule, and they can do so much and are so smart and honorable........I love 'em!  :)

Still thinking about last night's concert, and kinda blown away by How Heavy Metal It Was.

I wasn't quite expecting that!  :)

See you in the morn. Post if you can. I Love You.  xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo  :):)