Video Games with Mom

My son sent me this. I think some things are just universally true.

Le Concert

 

If you like good music you are a step into liking—strike that—loving this movie.

But it’s not just the music, The Concert has all the constituent parts of a good film: it’s a story with a beginning. middle, and end; it has romance of a kind; likable characters; and yes, one compelling attribute: absolutely beautiful music.

The glue that binds the parts together is the kind of innocent bond between the two main characters, the beatific Anne-Marie Jacquet, the first violin, played by Melanie Laurent, and Il Maestro, Andrey Filipov, played by Aleksey Guskov. The Concert is a French film, a comedy, with the typical French/Italian wackiness that comes across as slightly annoying to me if it goes on for too long. It doesn’t here.

This is a good movie and the last 10+ minutes is uninterrupted musical enjoyment.

4 out of 5 stars.
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More Donut Talk: the Cronut

For those of us who can never get enough donut news:

The latest New York City food passion is the CRONUT, croissant dough formed to donut shape and deep fried. Dominique Ansel and his SoHo bakery make only 300 per day and sell out every morning as fast as the line will move. Limit: two cronuts per person.

Here's the New York Times link with other croissant variations, as well: New York Times

For a better story, and where I first read about the cronut, go here: Daily Beast. Worth watching: the embedded Vimeo has an interview with the pastry chef and snippets of customer comments.