Movie of the Week: Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

[jacey]

If you liked the first Marigold Hotel movie (which I did) you'll love this. The venerable cast on British thesps are on top form, though Richard Gere seems a little out of place (but does add eye-candy, for a certain value of eye-candy). Sonny (the excellent Dev Patel) is hoping to expand his business and buy another hotel, so is courting American backers. Things start going haywire when he makes assumptions about a guest (gere) whom he believes to be the 'guy' who has been sent to check out the hotel. With his wedding looming over him it seems that Sonny can't get anything right, though, of course, his guests always rally in support.

There's a sweet romance going on between characters played by Judi Dench and Bill Nighy and Maggie Smith is her usual redoubtable self. The cinematoography is excellent capturing the vivid colours and the heat of India.

Yes, I'm a sucker for the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - and though you can never quite recapture the pleasure of seeing the first one for the first time, the Second Best is not really second best. Highly recommended

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Oh, good! I adored the first one, though this will be poignant, going to see it without my old German friend who had been a teenager in Hamburg during WW II, with all those scars. How she loved that movie!

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Dev Patel?

Phwoar! :o)

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Then you certainly need to go and see Chappie, too.