watch it if you can

Got to watch Catch Me If You Can during the weekend. May mga nagsabi sa akin na ang worth it lang sa pelikula ay yung opening credits, which was very French animation to me. Really cool. Sums up the whole film too. What made me sit through the entire two and a half hours:

(a) It's the seemingly most interesting Leonardo diCaprio movie in years since The Beach. The scenes in the plane made me think that he was caught between sets: one for this and Gangs of New York, where he wore a similar hairstyle. But as Frank Abegnale Jr he was more slick, and definitely more movie star material.

(b) Christopher Walken is in it. I'd watch anything with Christopher Walken in it. Annie Hall, Headless in Hollow. It was marvelous seeing Christopher Walken twirl around the room. So suave, so much in love. You don't usually think of Christopher Walken as somebody in love. Always tortured and stingy, but not in love in the way we see him twirl his war bride wife around the room. And the pain, the pain after that divorce. It's the pain that pushes this movie till the end. "We'll get it all back, Daddy." It's everything for Daddy.

(c) Nathalie Baye. I thought she looked familiar. That look, that accent. And she was French. Then I realized it was Her from The Pornographic Affair, which you might recall I have fondness for. She was also in Venus Beauty Institute, which also starred a younger Amelie, er Audrey Tatou, who by the way is coming out with a daisy chain of a movie, A la folie..pas du tout. Which in turn is nasal French for "He loves me, he loves me not." The whole rhyme goes "Il m'aime, un peu, beaucoup, a la folie, pas du tout." He loves me, a little, a lot, madly, not at all. But of course, it sounds better in French. Or maybe it's just me.

I'm also looking forward to The Crimes of Father Amaro. I'd like to say it's because the film is interesting, but actually it's because of Gael Garcia Bernal, who is as interesting as it gets. Even if he looks like he hasn't bathed in three days, he manages to look yummy. Then again, maybe it's just me.