Grey, brown and beige

Well I'm back in Melbourne. Five weeks in the UK, ten beds later plus one sofa - its good to be home. Yes England is my Homeland, and Melbourne, Australia is home to me right now.
The other day, I met up with my no 1 photographer, John Englezos. Check out his website - http://www.johnephotography.com/ 
We did our usual Nova cinema cheap seats Monday - Lovely.  This time, we chose Tinker, Tailor Soldier Spy. 
Checkout the plot at, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1340800/

I was hoping for a griping Dynamic thriller. The 1979 BBC series  of the John Le Carre novel was a favourite of my Mum's. So it was with fond memories, I sat in expectation. 

The costume designer was Jacqueline Durran, I'd recently tweeted my delight of her work on the newest film version of Pride and Prejudice. Now what was she going to do with a 1970's spy thriller?



Grey, brown and beige, very clever for the first few scenes, but too much to handle for the entire movie. It wasn't just the costumes, but the set as well, the lighting, the whole visual aesthetics. The acting was good, very good, but just like the colour scheme, clever, but perhaps a bit boring.


 Having said that, while finding images for my blog as often is the case, I found this blog celebrating the costumes of this movie! http://hollywoodmoviecostumesandprops.blogspot.com/2011/12/original-movie-costumes-from-tinker.html

Costumes from Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

on display at ArcLight Hollywood cinema

One final note, talking about grey brown and beige. Does that mean that my longe room is 'a bit boring' ?