Peter Firth

[Tea Lady]

(09-07-2010 04:22 PM)A Cousin Wrote:  I watched An Awfully Big Adventure last night. As twisted and disturbing a take on the Peter Pan story as this is, I thought PF was one of the best things in it as the devoted Stage Manager Bunny, AKA Tinkerbell. Bunny is one of the few characters that is not caricatured. His performance is very understated and it could have gone way off the deep end. It teetered on it, but never actually toppled into the overacting for laughs abyss. There were a lot of acting-in-between-the-lines moments which he does so well. It is a character that unfolds slowly and Bunny has a whole plot line all his own underneath everything else. I prefer his plot line as it is a whole lot less...um...sordid.

Currently watching AABA on Youtube. Some nice person has posted it on there in twelve parts with Spanish sub-titles. Will report further when finished watching it.

Over the last few weeks I have watched White Angel and Tess. I thought White Angel was a great little British film even though it was only made for £10k and shot mostly in a residential garage. As for Tess, I found it totally depressing. I think I have only read one Thomas Hardy novel and that was The Mayor of Casterbridge. I found that depressing as well. I did love the very young PF in Tess though. His face even then, was able to show such emotion, without words.

I have also just picked up The Incident on DVD, for about £3. PF plays a German POW. Not watched it yet, although I have a feeling I may have watched it on TV as a kid, many centuries ago.