Putting a little coco in the bourgeois chocolate box.

 

Finally got to see the movie Coco before Chanel which I’ve wanted to catch for quite a while;
Very enjoyable it was too.  Easy on the eye and the mind and with a lot of humour and some excellent back and forth dialogue which is generally very well played. Audrey Tautou gives an excellent performance, her character refuses to back down, smile on demand, play the coquette – it’s her most interior role since Dirty Pretty Things.
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happy birthday double header! Regina and Raven - happy birthday!!:))

Jean Cocteau once wrote a play called The Eagle Has Two Heads exploring the dualistic states of male and female, upper and lower class, master and servant. When I think of Regina it is in the same way, poet on the one hand, prose writer on the other. 
A creator of two interwoven characters Shelby and Alberto, female and male, two sides of the creator – and in her more intimate works; husband and wife – whilst in prose the mysterious and unnamed ‘she’ and her relationship with God.
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