Ok, I've been thinking about this for the last few days and I have 3 offerings and 1 question.
Frankly what we see on screen looks like an optimistic amount of orange juice for 1925 Montana, but there are 3 other period appropriate OJ cocktails that would be plausible:
1) The Bebbo (gin, honey, lemon, OJ) named after 1920s flapper slang
2) Blood and Sand (scotch, OJ, cherry brandy, sweet vermouth) named after a 1922 movie
3) The Monkey Gland (gin, OK, grenadine, pastis) which inspired the 1923 song, "Made a Monkey Out of Me"
Despite solid performances, I felt Rose and George were pretty flat characters that needed a little more development to make Rose's demise believable. If you had 10 more minutes of the film, where would you have added to the story?
I was also trying to figure out why the cocktails were so orangey. Appreciate all of these. My vote is for the Monkey Gland, which I want immediately.
Campion is working in broad but economical brushstrokes, and to your point the praise for Kirsten Dunst leave me puzzled since she's already done the same with with meatier roles. (Personally prefer her when she's trying her hand at comedic bitchery a la Bachelorette.) Would love to see how husband and step-son act one-on-one.
Ok, I've been thinking about this for the last few days and I have 3 offerings and 1 question.
Frankly what we see on screen looks like an optimistic amount of orange juice for 1925 Montana, but there are 3 other period appropriate OJ cocktails that would be plausible:
1) The Bebbo (gin, honey, lemon, OJ) named after 1920s flapper slang
2) Blood and Sand (scotch, OJ, cherry brandy, sweet vermouth) named after a 1922 movie
3) The Monkey Gland (gin, OK, grenadine, pastis) which inspired the 1923 song, "Made a Monkey Out of Me"
Despite solid performances, I felt Rose and George were pretty flat characters that needed a little more development to make Rose's demise believable. If you had 10 more minutes of the film, where would you have added to the story?
I was also trying to figure out why the cocktails were so orangey. Appreciate all of these. My vote is for the Monkey Gland, which I want immediately.
Campion is working in broad but economical brushstrokes, and to your point the praise for Kirsten Dunst leave me puzzled since she's already done the same with with meatier roles. (Personally prefer her when she's trying her hand at comedic bitchery a la Bachelorette.) Would love to see how husband and step-son act one-on-one.