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I never saw Evita when it came out a million years ago. It got panned by the critics and I remember Madonna singing a song from it at the Oscars.

I saw it last weekend as part of my pre-Argentine education (I know it’s a movie and not accurate blah blah blah so save your breath). Wow. I missed out. It’s actually extremely good for being a musical and was sadly overshadowed by all the hoopla around Madonna being cast as the title role. She’s fine in it and I’ve always liked her, but the revelation is the searing, swaggering, smoldering Antonio Banderas. I loved this movie in spite of hating musicals and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

That’s it.

Posted on August 23rd, 2009 under General, Tunes •  Print •  Email • RSS 2.0 feed • Leave a response, or trackback