Saturday 30 June 2007

Lights, Camera, Action

Look hard (above), and your faithful correspondent is part of the action!

A film crew spent the day recently filming at the coffee shop in my work building. Actor John Malkovich spent much of the day inside, but by the time I heard about it and poked my camera in the general direction, he didn't appear to be there.

The film is called Disgrace, and is based on the Booker prize-winning novel by J.M. Coetzee, who migrated to Australia in 2002, and who received the Nobel Prize for literature in 2003. It is set in post-apartheid South Africa, and is a pretty disturbing and bleak and cheerless portrait of contemporary conditions there.
Interiors are being shot in Surry Hills, and the rest of the film in South Africa.

7 comments:

  1. Unusual photo. Am I correct in assuming that there is a reflection of you taking the photo? Have a great week-end!

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  2. I don't see you. I guess you are there.

    I hope you have a nice weekend.

    Brookville Daily Photo

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  3. I seen your reflection on the left side. Nice shot. That one girl on the left beside your reflection looks angry.

    Today I posted something yummy. And, if you'd like to see more of my vacation, just click on the bold link.

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  4. With a title such as "Disgrace", was my initial hope that it might deal with the manner in which the current Sth African Government is dealing with current problems such as AIDS? I try to be optimistic.

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  5. The "shrine" you snapped at East Hills is in the news again - the boy would have been 18 this weekend, so it is now covered in balloons and banners...check it out if you are in the area.

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  6. What?
    YOU ALMOST SAW JOHN MALKOVICH???
    I am so impressed Sally!
    And yes, I can see you in the window LOL

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  7. It took time for me to see you. Actually one can see one of your eyes only :-))

    Malkovic spends much time in southern France where I live. Are you sure the bald man in the second photo is not him?

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