MRS. PARKER AND THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
Director: Alan Rudolph
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Matthew Broderick, Campbell Scott, Gwyneth Paltrow
Screen date (US): 1994
Date seen: 25.07.08
Review by: dorizjeltzin
Trailer:
Review: I love biographic movies, specially early 20th century, specially America. For me mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle is the film that made it for me. The movies I usually enjoy the most are the once I accidentally drop by while I’m watching TV and that suddenly struck me as interesting. The problem with these movies are that you mostly only see parts of it and really have to struggle to find it later in life. I spent years to find this movie again, but the first time I saw it really made an impression.
The movie tells the life and times story of New Yorkwriter Dorothy parker with a special focus on the Colorful twenties. A question I like to ask myself is if I rather would like to be an artist with a miserable life, but great affection on the future, or an artist that was great in its time but forgotten in is future. If I where to pick the first one, I would be mrs. Parker. She wasn’t named the Queen of Sarcasm for nothing. Just because she is the coolest little lady ever. The movie almost seems to be built on quotes and is like a cavalcade of snobbery. Still the setting with the vicious circle as the coolest group of people ever it totally is the place you want to be.
In words: Flappers, probation and All that Jazz.
Quote: “The sun went dim, and the moon turned black, cause I loved him, and he did not love me back” Dorothy Parker.
