Sometimes we all need to be reminded of obvious shit.

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🎭 Cast: Grégory Gadebois, Bernard Campan, Alexandra Lamy, Isabelle Carré, Dominique Pinon, Romane Libert, Patrick Pineau, Ernest Mourier, Albert Dupontel, Claire Ruppli, Evelyne Istria, Pascal Rénéric, Alexandre Carrière, Jean-Philippe Lutin, Jacques Bouanich, Grégoire Philippe, Christian Valsamidis, Peggy Péneau, Christiane Conil, Christophe Rossignon, Salvatore Caltabiano...

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🎬 Les amours d’Astrée et de Céladon [The Romance of Astrea and Celadon] (2007)

Subtitles available:
🇬🇧 English
🇫🇷 French
🇪🇸 Spanish

⬇️ Download https://app.box.com/s/lf29nnm3szqxahr8j675hx8gqcydxnlf

🎞 IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0823240/

▶️ Watch the video here 👇
https://darkiworld2026.com/titles/194370/les-amours-dastree-et-de-celadon

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So, after finishing… Not as top-tier as Rebecca, but delightfully sinister and everyone got what they deserved. Something about the way Daphne du Maurier writes… like… it's very educational for my autist learning How To Person studies. It teaches me how to see people and read people and also, like, "OH! That's how women are able to manipulate these stupid men!" Not that I ever would… but I am taking notes for the sake of general knowledge…

BUT. We need to address the doofus that is Philip Ashley in the room because I genuinely… Like, I'm not giving him a pass for the physical abuse EXCEPT he was literally poisoned and not right in the head… so, like half a pass. But he is just Big Stupid Boy. Sheltered, emotionally inexperienced boy. You can't be mad at him for being a "bad" guy, because he thought he was doing the right thing, and you can't really yell at him "how can you be so oblivious?!" either, because… he was a young man lacking people skills and intuition and self-preservation (because why would he need it?) and he got DUPED and DEVOURED. Like, poor thing. Poor little idiot. You made some unwise decisions and had to learn the hard way. That's the way it goes, sometimes. I pity him. Not, "aww my poor lil bb" pity, just… Fuck around and find out, buddy. Sorry, it sucks. But you were just so clueless. (Uncle Ambrose didn't help by isolating him. I mean, you do really need early socialization with women to understand women when you start to have feelings… And I get it, your best little pal is a girl but it's like… she's not a girl?! She's Louise?! Like—?? "What are you talking about?" lol Absolute clown.)

HOWEVER semi-serious consideration of power dynamics aside… How am I supposed to take a man seriously who thinks things like, "He was so close I could have thrown a biscuit at him." ??? A BISCUIT?! PHILIP! You HATE this guy and the best thing you can think to throw is a BISCUIT. Oh, Philip. The real gothic knife-twist tragedy in this novel is that Daphne made you such a schmuck and then threw Rachel at you.

I found Sir Walter Scott's Waverley, a novel and author I'd previously avoided, really interesting.

A milestone in the development of the historical novel, Scott applies Enlightenment values to his depiction of characters, takes liberties with history, inserts his own voice into the text, and creates a romantic vision of his country's recent past.

He also tells a good yarn.

https://quitebookish.com/2026/04/01/waverley-by-sir-walter-scott/

#classicliterature #19thcenturynovels #books #history #reading #bookstodon #bookblogging

Dating advice from Sir Walter Scott:

If you're seeing someone but realise it's probably not going anywhere, don't just ghost them -

explain that your all-consuming passion for the restoration of the Stuart monarchy leaves little room in your heart for rival affections (then flounce off dramatically) ⚔️

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Book Review: The History of Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare

Author: William Shakespeare
Title: The History of Henry IV, Part 1
Publication Info: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2020. [Originated circa 1597]
Summary/Review:

Of the Shakespearean English histories I’ve read so far, this one is the least stand alone.  It definitely feels like it’s setting up Henry IV, Part 2 and Henry V.  King Henry IV has a couple of problems: first, he falls out with Henry Percy – a.k.a. Hotspur – who allies with Welsh and Scottish rebels against the king.  Meanwhile, his son Prince Hal is leading a licentious life with his rowdy friend Sir John Falstaff.  I’ve known from reading about Shakespeare that Falstaff was an incredibly popular character, cowardly yet quick-witted, but I found him kind of irritating.  Hopefully, I’ll find him more entertaining in upcoming plays.  The various storylines come together with Prince Hal regaining the king’s affections by fighting the rebels at the Battle of Shrewsbury.

Rating: ***

I’m reading every Shakespeare play, one per month, in chronological order.  Here’s my progress thus far:

📝 Plot: In 19th-century Paris, the courtesan Marguerite Gautier lives a life of luxury sustained by wealthy patrons. When she falls deeply in love with a young man from a respectable family, their romance is threatened by social conventions, sacrifice and illness, leading to a tragic fate in this adaptation of Alexandre Dumas fils’ classic novel.

#LaDameAuxCamelias #Drama #Romance #FrenchCinema #PeriodDrama #TragicLove #ClassicLiterature