Thursday Movie Picks #258: Period Drama

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Period Drama

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I thought I had a period drama theme before for TMP, but apparently not, that was only the TV edition. It would be hard for me to pick my favourite period dramas unless I went by a much narrower criteria and a theme within a theme because I do enjoy quite a lot of period dramas. So instead I'm just going for recent watches that I like.

In Secret (2013) 

 A young woman trapped in a loveless marriage, begins an affair with her husband's friend that has tragic consequences. I've been wanting to see this for while. Based on a book, the story of which I was mostly unfamiliar with, it had you know those fallen women kind of premise like Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina, so I was curious how the story would set itself apart from those and I had definitely expected a suicide to occur because that is like the typical end these authors gave to their leads. And ha! I was right about the suicide, but since I don't want to spoil too much I'll just say the story does set itself apart from the above titles as its goes beyond just infidelity and overall the movie itself was pretty ok. The first half moves rather slowly but the second half saves it, especially after the lake incident where consequently everything soon unravels.

The Dressmaker (2015)

A dressmaker returns to her small town to care for her mother and face her past. I enjoyed this. The costumes are gorgeous. While it was often funny and it was also able the maintain darker aspect of story just as it was in the book. I mean the townspeople in this are just awful awful people. The movie also plays itself as a sort of mystery with flashbacks as the main character tries to remember the past, the reason why she had been sent away as a child.

Mademoiselle de Joncquières (2018)
A widow plans her revenge on a casanova. I didn't know much about the movie before seeing it and had thought it was more of a romantic drama. Turns out it's more of a romantic dramedy and I really enjoyed it. The revenge plot was quite clever.

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