Passion

February ‘26 challenge: Watch 5 (at least) movies featuring Rachel McAdams - #3

It’s entertaining, albeit a mess in terms of script and what it wants to do with the characters. The end sequence boasts some amazing cinematography, but it gets ruined by that old “oh oh, it was not real” trick.

February ‘26 challenge: Watch 5 (at least) movies featuring Rachel McAdams - #3

It’s entertaining, albeit a mess in terms of script and what it wants to do with the characters. The end sequence boasts some amazing cinematography, but it gets ruined by that old “oh oh, it was not real” trick.

YOU ARE UNDER SPELLS GIORGIO

YOU ARE UNDER SPELLS GIORGIO

“I will live, and I would die for you.”
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“Do die loved is to have lived.”
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Very normal and not devastating at all pick for your spontaneous Wednesday night viewing with your sister.

“I will live, and I would die for you.”
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“Do die loved is to have lived.”
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Very normal and not devastating at all pick for your spontaneous Wednesday night viewing with your sister.

Seeing this only after I had previously watched the concert version was a revelation. Donna Murphy does something here that I couldn’t imagine anyone else comparing to. 

To summarize: holy shit.

Seeing this only after I had previously watched the concert version was a revelation. Donna Murphy does something here that I couldn’t imagine anyone else comparing to. 

To summarize: holy shit.

I am not one easy to cry in movies, but here we are. Passion is such a strong story, very complex, dark, intoxicating, but beautiful in every way. The power of Fosca’s character is only intensified by the music, words alone couldn’t do her justice. I Wish I Could Forget You is my favorite song, Donna Murphy is divine, and overall I think the musical managed to capture Giorgio’s emotional journey even better than the movie. Human feelings are complicated, and whatever happened between Fosca and Giorgio, as unhealthy and strange as it was, had all the intense vulnerability I always search for in fiction. Now onto the book: this story deserves to be experienced in all of its forms.

I am not one easy to cry in movies, but here we are. Passion is such a strong story, very complex, dark, intoxicating, but beautiful in every way. The power of Fosca’s character is only intensified by the music, words alone couldn’t do her justice. I Wish I Could Forget You is my favorite song, Donna Murphy is divine, and overall I think the musical managed to capture Giorgio’s emotional journey even better than the movie. Human feelings are complicated, and whatever happened between Fosca and Giorgio, as unhealthy and strange as it was, had all the intense vulnerability I always search for in fiction. Now onto the book: this story deserves to be experienced in all of its forms.