A Gentleman In Moscow

[MikoTython]

I'm digging it. Streaming on Paramount+, can buy on Amazon :

An aristocrat not executed upon returning to Russia in 1918 because a poem written in 1913 'attributed to him' is considered inspirational to the revolution.

From IMDB :

Count Alexander Rostov [Ewan McGregor]. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors...

[GelatinousEndive]

It’s a wonderful book I own, but haven’t read yet. I won’t watch the film. I doubt that it does justice to the book.

In the van it joins “all the light we cannot see “which is another book I own, I have it read, I think it will be wonderful, and I skipped the film because I don’t want it ruined.

[MikoTython]

It’s a wonderful book I own, but haven’t read yet. I won’t watch the film. I doubt that it does justice to the book.

In the van it joins “all the light we cannot see “which is another book I own, I have it read, I think it will be wonderful, and I skipped the film because I don’t want it ruined.

Interesting. You should rank all the shows you refuse to see, in terms of their relative likelihood of getting your goat. I admire that you are yet reading novels, with so much youtube n streamin' about. I've gotten so lazy. When I do read, not often enough, it's NF.

On a slightly more serious note, I generally don't go in for series, either, on the gp that they are huge time-wasters, chock full of tedious usually pretentious fill. This was recommended to me by a sister whose taste/judgement I value, so I indulged her. McGregor & cast were endearing. What I enjoyed was the opportunity to see them gracefully age, weather the storms that came their way. It wasn't realistic, it wasn't great, but it was well done, charmingly & tastefully presented.

In the piece, there were cast a relative plenitude of AA (i.e. black) actors (irl, of course, scarce as hen's teeth in Stalinist Russia), which gave a lot of people a whole lotta gas. It was funny reading them all making the same crabby beech, one after t'other, though to be fair, the guy in the dreadlocks was a bit much. You could tell it just ruined the whole thing for them. The British accents, though, not so much.

[GelatinousEndive]

It’s a wonderful book I own, but haven’t read yet. I won’t watch the film. I doubt that it does justice to the book.

In the van it joins “all the light we cannot see “which is another book I own, I have it read, I think it will be wonderful, and I skipped the film because I don’t want it ruined.

Interesting. You should rank all the shows you refuse to see, in terms of their relative likelihood of getting your goat. I admire that you are yet reading novels, with so much youtube n streamin' about. I've gotten so lazy. When I do read, not often enough, it's NF.

On a slightly more serious note, I generally don't go in for series, either, on the gp that they are huge time-wasters, chock full of tedious usually pretentious fill. This was recommended to me by a sister whose taste/judgement I value, so I indulged her. McGregor & cast were endearing. What I enjoyed was the opportunity to see them gracefully age, weather the storms that came their way. It wasn't realistic, it wasn't great, but it was well done, charmingly & tastefully presented.

In the piece, there were cast a relative plenitude of AA (i.e. black) actors (irl, of course, scarce as hen's teeth in Stalinist Russia), which gave a lot of people a whole lotta gas. It was funny reading them all making the same crabby beech, one after t'other, though to be fair, the guy in the dreadlocks was a bit much. You could tell it just ruined the whole thing for them. The British accents, though, not so much.

Sadly, I read very little. I just know from decades of being a big reader that Gentleman and some others would be pretty good novels and film would likely not measure up.