Medusa's Ankles, a short video with Jason Isaacs

The legendary Jason Isaacs, in a short (20 minutes) adaptation of an AS Byatt short story, Medusa's Ankles.  As usual, he's great, but as usual he's not the hero so his character falls disappointingly short in morals, ethics and intelligence.

His smarmy hairdresser is certainly miles away from his ruthless, coarse Zhukov in Death of Stalin (which I forgot to review here), but he's just as compelling.

Alas, the last scene (without Isaacs) is disappointing. I checked the original text, and it's what she wrote - basically boils down to "Oh, your new hairdo...you look beautiful. Why didn't you do that before?" I preferred the meek tiger she was before.  But we can't blame that on Jason. (Or on Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley), who directed it.)



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For those of you who missed Death of Stalin, here's a taste of Jason Isaacs as Zhukov. It's an odd little film - a lot of moral questions with no answers - but superbly acted and directed.

Jason Isaacs, looking at the camera

English actor Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy, for one) is my favorite bad guy.  I came across this newish film on the interwebs and it was without any attribution, as it often is, but it appears to be Jason Isaacs looking at the camera for 3:32, during which his (real life) family appear now and again.

It sounds kind of boring, and perhaps it is - you have been warned - but I found it tremendously affecting, and I learned something about people. YMMV.



Edit: looks like the uploader pollysteele1 is the film-maker. Her channel is here.

Lucius Malfoy in Shades.

I haven't seen Half Blood Prince yet - I may break my vow and go to the cinema to catch it on the big screen.

Lucius Malfoy is my idea of the perfect man. Here's a nice picture of him relaxing in mufti. He's with, I think, Radio one DJ Elizabeth Bowman, but for the purposes of squee, let's assume she's a witch and the mic is a wand. What sort of infernal potion shall we assume the bottle of water is?