Doesn't anybody see her at all?

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I need that I ATEN'T DEAD card again. In the last few days, I have seen Blow-Up, Persona, and Stardust (2007), and I can state unequivocally that Stardust was the least weird of these three. Blow-Up reminded me strongly of early Angela Carter: I'd have cast David Hemmings as Honeybuzzard. Conversely, Persona was like something Hitchcock and Brecht might have collaborated on, except that the concern with self and silence and response is all Bergman's own. ("Faith is a torment. It is like loving someone who is out there in the darkness but never appears, no matter how loudly you call." —The Seventh Seal.) And after a slightly rocky start, Stardust was extremely fun: I may write up some of my character reactions when I'm a little less fried, but for the record I am fully in the camp of De Niro's Captain Shakespeare as awesome.

Tomorrow, oysters in Milford.

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the "fuck",

Yes. There's something about the very quiet all-lowercase profanity that simultaneously makes and takes the mythic drama out of the starfall. I was rather disappointed that was left out.

and the book's ending. At least, I think I miss the book's ending--I wish I could find my copy, but I seem to remember the book having a sort of anti-"happily ever after" that I rather liked.

You remember correctly: it has the bittersweet ending of immortality; the slow dance of the infinite stars. I did not dislike the film's ending, because of the way it was grounded in the exchange of hearts, but it did surprise me a little.

They needed someone very young, someone they could therefore age more flexibly.

Eh. I thought she was also awesome. And I realize I may never have seen her in a role where she wasn't enchanted: all I can remember her from is Ladyhawke.