I searched for a thread on this movie but couldn’t find one, and am not sure whether to be surprised or not.
My wife and I had a night without the kids last night, so we watched The Little Hours. It’s exactly in our wheelhouse: set in a medieval convent and based on the Decameron, it’s a profane, ribald story about the Casanova who flees a murderous noble and takes refuge in the convent, and about the three horny nuns who try to seduce him with varying degrees of success. The setting and costumes are period, the music is vintage 1970s medieval music, and the language and accents are straight from modern sitcoms. Which is appropriate, since the nuns include Kate Micucci from “Garfunkel and Oates”, Aubrey Plaza from “Parks and Rec,” and Alison Brie from, well, you know Alison Brie, she’s a main reason we watched it.
It’s not at all going to be to everyone’s taste, but if this red band trailer does it for you, you’re probably gonna have fun :).
Have any of y’all seen it? Did I somehow miss a thread on it?
That was a pretty awesome film. I’m given to understand that most of it was improv, and I wouldn’t have guessed it. Dialog was very smooth, no parts seemed forced or stilted. A very worthwhile comedy.
Heh–parts of it were stilted enough that I wondered if they were translations, but definitely there were sections that were…not stilted. Very interesting!
I don’t know if any of you will be familiar enough with this comparison, but to me it felt like a vintage Italian porn movie, but without the porn. It had the odd little plot made up of excuses for sex scenes, the strange juxtaposition of modern and period, and an unexpected twist just so we get to see the cute ones naked.
I liked it, though. It just needed a few more jokes from the nuns, as the funniest bits were by John C Reilly and Fred Armisen.
I like the way they transitioned from, “Oh, woe is us, we’re nuns and this is all so boring …”
Random groundskeepers says “Good morning”
The nuns go on a tirade of profanity, but since they’re nuns, they don’t know any dirty words except “Shit.” Then one calls him a “Jew” and that’s so insulting he quits.
That’s just totally getting into the character of medieval nuns. Angry, pissed off, rebellious, … medieval … nuns.
This sounds vaguely familiar to a movie I saw in the early 90s.
Some dude becomes injured and finds himself bedridden in a convent. Three of the nuns there fall for the guy. The nuns are trying their best to keep their feelings secret from each other, meanwhile, this gentleman is at the center of it all.