Ignoring the reviews

Since the weekend wasn't propitious for movie-going and since today was better and since the Bollywood movie was gone and our selection was simplified, we took in The Promise on its last day in town. After reading some of the reviews, including the one on the Chron, it would have been easy to be deterred from seeing it. That would have been a mistake. Even had it been a bad movie, there would have been much for us to enjoy, but it's a good movie, and better than good, a sort of adult fairy tale picaresque epic. The screen keeps the eyes busy. The acting is really wonderful. The wigs are not so, in some cases. There were those who thought better of the cattle in the defile than I did. We're lucky that, sooner or later, most movies do arrive in Austin, however brief their stay.