Still Life: A Three Pines Mystery

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Mary R After watching New series, I realized how much I liked this movie and watched it again. The new ones might be slicker produced, but the virile Nathaniel Parker was much more like I had pictured Gamache than the geriatric, sometimes lost looking and troubled Alfred Molina and I love Alfred Molina, just not as Gamache. This movie was truer to book. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Wow. I genuinely cannot imagine a worse rendering of the source material. Imagine screenwriting, casting and performances worthy of a school play… awful. Hopefully at some point someone else will acquire the rights and produce films worthy of the series. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 09/09/21 Full Review Audience Member Louise Perry's characters seem well cast. Very fun to see the landscape and towns in Canada where the novels are set. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member It was a poor adaptation of an excellent story. Penny's novels are engaging and have a wide audience. Mr. Moss (the producer) made some terrible decisions. His first error was in the screen adaptation, second in allowing the absurd whitewash of lovely carefully structured characterizations to be eliminated. The third was in not recreating Three Pines as the remote wilderness location it is in the novels. The biggest was in not hiring Louise Penny as a screenplay, location and script advisor. Such a bland and insulting film of a challenging and fascinating group of characters could only be done by a producer refusing to allow his creative people some space. Viewers may enjoy this, but it lacks depth, resonance and beauty. Please don't make any more disasters like this when you could have created something like a Canadian multicultural Midsomer! Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member I suspect the movie could be quite enjoyable IF you were not a Louise Penny fan who has devoured her books over and over again. I really like Nathaniel Parker and the other actors, but he is not Gamache. As an African American woman conscious of bias, I understand why Myrna in the movie was portrayed as a pretty woman. But I really enjoy the character in the book. I am afraid that I am one of those who believe that the book is almost always far, far better than the movie. The two media are amenable to different experiences. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member as lovely as the book - ending was creepier than that book! SO good to see film set in Canada. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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