#Driving Madeleine

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"Flickering Dreams" Ep. 37: Reviews of Napoleon, Saltburn, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Thanksgiving, May December, Muzzle, Rustin and Driving Madeleine.

Episode 37 of Flickering Dreams. #flickeringdreams. Features: Napoleon, Saltburn, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Thanksgiving, May December, Muzzle, Rustin, & Driving Madeleine. And David Fincher is the Featured Director.

In Episode 37 of Flickering Dreams I’m joined by Andy Godfrey of Sorted Magazine and Konnect Radio, Emma Sewell of Emma @ The Movies on X (Twitter!) and Scott Forbes of The Forbes Film and TV Review. In this episode Bob, Scott and Andy review the following films: Napoleon: Ridley Scott’s take on the life of the great soldier and statesman; Saltburn: Emerald Fennell’s dark and daring 2nd…

[kaitcake1289]

die with light by your side

[jennchecks]

A lip of the stage. Arms around each other, defiant, scared. Whispering last words to one another…

[sweetfoamspirit]

Butterleine Propaganda

- Classic Red and Blue trope

- Literally my bread and butter

- Can probably pick each other up

- Good bosses

- Smart individually, dumb as fuck together

- Lots of physical affection (big hugs!!)

- Bonding over annoying

the shit out of Espresso

- The sillies. Actual goofballs. (😄😃)

- Arm wrestling as an excuse to hold hands // (nsfw) wrestling as an excuse to -

- Bromance.

"Tell the whole word that we're bros"

*whispers* "we're bros"

"Why'd you whisper bro?"

"Cause you're my whole world bro"

"B r o"

- Babyroll and Maddiecakes :D

- Playing with each other's hair (Madeleine high-key jealous of B-Roll's hair)

- Playing together often. Soccer, nerf guns, video games, etc.

- Mads tries to help him with his experiments, usually doing the easier tasks or helping clean up. Likewise, Butter Roll is a formidable opponent when helping Mads train new paladins.

[my-jokes-are-my-armour]

Ok. 3 days left before having my heart shattered because of silence or hope renewed for a little bit longer.

Give us a wee hello, please 🥺

[b0nelessdoodles]

Being mentally ill at work today thinking about the boys

[demuresprigg]

God. I think having watched S2 of IWTV, I did love it but I just have one big caveat? Which is Madeleine?

To be clear, I did love Madeleine! Fucking heartbreaking how she and Claudia went! I love a tragedy, but god if I hadn't been happy if they'd somehow made it. I think she's an interesting study of a post-liberation french person jaded by war.

But that's also the issue?

I don't think she deserved the fate collaborators (as in those who had a gainful relationship with Nazis and Petains lot during ww2) got, and I'm sure a lot of collaborators who were just trying to survive (as in people who let Nazis stay in their home or exchanged small personal favours for food and supplies they might need to survive) didn't deserve the way the mobs treated them after liberation, but she was still someone who invited a nazi officer into her house, not because she was truly and unfortunately in love or because she needed to survive, but because, in her own words, she felt lonely.

She was with a nazi officer because she was... Lonely. And they don't even explore it! They don't delve into it! Like it was used as a plot hook to give Claudia a reason to save her without actually looking at the ramifications that shed been with a man who mightve shot (or at least tried to shoot) Claudia! You can't just... Skip over the fact that someone was a collaborator when looking at post-liberation France. That war ruined and tore apart families just like the US Civil War did as some were fine with or even directly supported the Nazis and the Vichy government and others fought and died trying to expel them from french soil.

Anyway. I just. Idk. They glossed over something with huge social and cultural weight in that setting and it's just bad taste in my mouth, I suppose. The way the show portrayed the retributions also just garners sympathy for people who sometimes sold out their own family members to the Nazis, and the only anti nazi representation are three enragé who break into a house to try and rape a woman.

Ah well! Good TV show. Just didn't love that facet of it.

[divorceblogger]

and also. having read the first book armand turning daniel on a whim Kind of makes sense to me in hindsight. I guess? I don’t know exactly how it fits into his conceptions about vampirism being a curse - which is what ticks me off the most - but what we do know is that in the books he finds daniel in lestat’s house chasing vampires soon after he leaves louis, where he’s possibly once again perceived as louis’s ‘leftovers’, maybe an object who had access to louis and his sympathy in a way he envies. in both iterations of the story there isn’t any significant period he goes through alone, and we see him attach himself to louis even with the threat of not receiving any love in return hanging over his head, hoping that the love will manifest eventually. now that he’s irreparably bound himself to daniel (fathered him, even) it’s not a stretch to anticipate him developing a very unhealthy attachment to daniel.

[destiel-inpurgaytory]

The tail end of this video, just Madeleine's high note for the last "love run" of the album sends CHILLS down my spine, I want to inject this video into my bloodstream

[blueiight]

i do think the fact that louis refuses a power up in immortal power is a key part of his character, whether its thru lestat’s newly gained powers in the blood or creating new vampires of his own. ive heard ‘louis not wanting to make vampires reflects his lack of parental instinct in the books’, but one its some oedipal ass shit btwn him + c in the books so idk how i feel abt that & two i think louis in his mind has rationalized making vampires of his own akin to powers lestat + other vampires r entitled to. he sees immortality as an escape from being a ‘Master’ / ‘Maker’. he desires to be under a maker, under someone else’s purview, rather. its telling that its several books later when louis attempts suicide that he has no choice but to take lestat’s blood, that the only two vampires louis makes are both forced out of him, and both vampires he makes die not long after, and in this book, lestat wants louis to make him into a vampire, but louis refuses to do so bc he does not want that power over lestat (+ lestat is infact, rly terrified and is only driven to beg louis to do so out of desparation.) also i think its absolutely hilarious the imagery of louis just crawling to lestat’s nice ass crib using his 50 inch tv set to watch old ass fairy tale spinoffs where the monster is the love interest and the main characters of each movie love+ accept being an outcast (absconding her ‘famiial duties’ in belle’s case) and downright becoming a monster (in rosaleen’s case) with their monstrous captor (company of wolves has a werewolf hunter in a red cape w/ guns and a company of wolves he loved + came out a year or two before tvl) & just crawling back to his dump afterwards.. lestat saying the only movie irrelevant to our kind & being silly superficial voyeurism on their part being james joyce’s the dead🤣

[lesmisscraper]

M. Madeleine Heading Towards to Arras. Volume 1, Book 7, Chapter 5.

Clips from <Il cuore di Cosette>.

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Driving Madeleine (15): A Tale in Pursuit of the Silver Dollar (But With Added Grit).

#onemannsmovies #filmreview of "Driving Madeleine". #DrivingMadeleine. A delightful Paris set drama for older folk (but with some bite). 4/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Driving Madeleine” (2023). Original title: Une belle course “Driving Madeleine” took me by surprise. When I started watching it, I thought “Oh, another gentle little movie that might bring in the ‘silver dollar’ audience”. Which is something I love seeing: the joy of going into a cinema screening in the middle of a weekday afternoon and instead of finding it…

[hellodarjeeling]

Being at the airport on 1.5 hours of sleep is a vibe

[getoutofthisplace]

Dear Gus & Magnus,

I left early this morning to catch a flight to Denver, where I'll meet with our water team over the next couple of days to discuss the Garver brand in Colorado and get some footage/photos of our team there. Meanwhile back at the ranch, this photo showed up on our Ridgeway Drive text thread. I'm so thankful you two get to grow up on the same section of the street as lots of other kids with parents we like. I can't wait to see what the recreation of this picture looks like in 15 years.

Dad.

Little Rock, Arkansas. 2.28.2023 - 5.57pm.

[pillarboxstudio]

[rainedragon]

It's Proginoskes!

Uncredited 1980 cover art to ‘A Wind in the Door,’ by Madeleine L'Engle