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Carrie and I both saw The Book of Life his past weekend, and we both had a LOT to say about it, so behold: joint review. Joint Long Ass Review, in fact. Short version: the story is not as strong as the visuals, but this is a wonderfully warm and visually stunning movie and we both recommend it.

This film could not have come at a better time for me and my family. We have really old cats. Spawn is 12, and Grace is 17. We had to put Oliver, who was also 17, to sleep this week. He's been ill for a long time, and it was time, but it wasn't easy for us.

When we were driving to the theatre to see The Book of Life, I asked both dudes if they understood what the movie was about. They had no idea except that the trailer featured churros, which they had deduced were something really good. (They are so right about that. Churros are amazing.) I explained what churros are, and also that the movie was about, in part, El Dia de Los Muertos, when the boundary between the living and the dead is more fluid, and the living honor their ancestors by leaving gifts and lighting candles for them.

I loved that the living were portrayed as wooden dolls, because a museum guide (voiced by Christina Applegate) was telling the story of The Book of Life to a handful of kids on a special visit to her museum. (The kids in the story are also representative of many different cultures, I learned yesterday.) The dolls come to life, but their mannerisms and the texture of their faces are still wooden, which added to the fantastical aspect of the story.

I do wish the Land of the Forgotten had been better addressed. Those whose descendants do not remember them, or whose descendants are no longer alive to remember them, live in the Land of the Forgotten, where they ultimately become dust and blow away. Those who live in the Land of the Remembered remain there so long as they are remembered, and so long as their family members remember them, and honor them on El Dia de Los Muertos, the Day of the Dead. The threat to the town in the land of the living is dire in part because if the bandit and his crew kill everyone, there will be no one left to remember the ancestors in the Land of the Remembered. The spirits in the Land of the Remembered want to help stop the attack alongside their living descendants, because without them, they all go to the Land of the Forgotten.

SPOILER AHEAD: The two rulers of those two worlds, La Muerte, who rules the Remembered, and Xibalba, who rules the Forgotten, are the impetus of the tale.They themselves are an estranged couple because during their last wager, Xibalba cheated, and La Muerte has not forgiven him. A new wager creates the plot of The Book of Life, because they each pick a champion for the hand of Maria in marriage. La Murete chooses Manolo, and Xibalba picks Joaquin, both of whom are friends with, and secretly interested in, Maria.

While the kids are still kids, Xibalba, who rules The Land of the Forgotten, and La Muerte, who rules the Land of the Remembered, bet on which boy Maria will choose in adulthood. I would have liked to see Maria be the main character, but instead the main point of view character is Manolo. There are a lot of twists in the story, but the love triangle itself is your basic love triangle. There could have been more tension had it not been so obvious who Maria would choose from the get-go. Having said that, I liked the romance because it tied into the theme of writing your own story.

Sarah: As a romance, I give this story a C+, but because of the beautiful visuals, the intricate and layered portrayal of Latin American culture, and the way in which life and death were described and defined, my grade for the movie is a B.

As to unanswered questions: supposedly this is going to be a trilogy (whether or not it actually becomes a trilogy is another question entirely) so we might get some of our questions answered in the other movies (one would hope).

You can go anywhere in a movie. Take a virtual stroll outside through the films listed below, all of which are clamoring to give you a cinematic dose of nature. From the rolling hills of The Sound of Music to the beachside splendor of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, here are a few watch list suggestions that will help you escape into a series of other worlds.

This 2018 Oscar-winning documentary is a series of incredible shots of mountains and the clinically fearless man obsessed with climbing them. Come for the thrills of watching climber Alex Honnold risk his life in the name of making history, stay for the gratuitous mountain and forest porn.

The 2014 drama is mostly a look at the hectic career of a legendary actor (Juliette Binoche) and her assistant (Kristen Stewart), but it does, eventually, take its title seriously and offers viewers blissful looks at the duo hiking around beautiful Sils Maria, Switzerland, coupled with dreamy footage of clouds lazing through valleys.

But before we get to the trial, let’s talk about 16th Century Venice and the real Veronica Franco (played by Catherine McCormack in the film). Venice, founded in myth by Venus rising from the sea, always featured two closely linked iconic visions of the goddess—as pure and inviolate virgin and as symbol of love and pleasure. And at the time everybody associated Venice with love and pleasure. Some historians believe that there were an astounding 11,000 prostitutes in 16th century Venice out of a total population of about 100,000 (Rosenthal finds the figure exaggerated but even half that number would be amazing).

Essentially, a young Venetian women who aspired to a decent lifestyle could enter a convent, marry a rich man (which required the woman to come up with a substantial dowry), or become a courtesan (essentially a high-priced prostitute). Although not shown in the film, Franco did in fact marry a physician as a young woman, but that marriage soon ended. Somehow her parents came up with the necessary dowry (which Franco fought for years to reclaim from her husband). Franco then became a courtesan (as her mother had once been).

Franco acquired rich and powerful patrons, such as Dominico Venier. As a result, she achieved astounding upward mobility. She acquired an excellent education, although how she managed it is unknown. She had a successful career as a poet. Tintoretto painted her portrait, which is featured on the front of Rosenthal’s book, which shows that she was quite fetching.

The film correctly reflects the difference in lifestyles between successful courtesans and wives of rich men. Wives were cloistered creatures without education or financial independence, their life devoted entirely to home and family. Courtesans, on the other hand, could mingle freely with the rich and famous, acquire education and wealth of their own, participate in literary, political and intellectual circles, and even publish their work.

Franco was incredibly successful in this milieu; between 1570 and 1580, she edited works of various authors and published books of her poetry as well as epistolary works. She was greatly concerned with the plight of younger women who lacked dowries; her published letters often refer to their plight and her wills left money to help poor women.

Franco’s success inspired extreme jealousy from male courtiers and poets whose position and patronage she greatly threatened. As in the film, a particularly venomous rival was Maffio Venier, a nephew of Franco’s patron Domenico Venier. Maffio repeatedly attacked Franco by name in satirical and often obscene verse. Franco’s poems and letters effectively strike back at Maffio and defend the role of courtesans in Venetian society.

Although the film does not show it, Franco struggled to raise a number of children; she had six, all by different fathers, of whom three sons survived infancy. She suffered ruined relationships and, especially late in her life, severe economic difficulties. The love story between Franco and Marco Venier (Domenico’s other nephew), which is central to the film, is apparently greatly exaggerated (although there is evidence that the two were intimate in real life).

As in the film, Franco really had an erotic encounter with King Henri III of France when he arrived in town (Franco was evidently a major tourist attraction). Because the patronage of the King of France would be exceptional valuable, Franco wrote poems about Henri and dedicated works of poetry to him. However, their actual relationship did not have the historic importance ascribed to it in the film. In the movie, after a delightful night of machistic lovemaking with Franco, Henri makes French naval power available to Venice in its war with the Turks.

The first two thirds of the film are basically a fun sex romp with poetry contests, beautiful costumes, and stunning views of Venice. I, for one, found the film lacking in emotional resonance, although a majority of those I’ve asked about it (particularly women) really liked it and empathized strongly with Franco’s character. One student remarked that she found the film incredibly empowering.

The last third of the film turns dark. The plague (and numerous other misfortunes) savaged Venice from 1575-77 and many women, especially courtesans, are placed on trial by the Inquisition. The theory is that the tragedies that befall Venice resulted from its licentious lifestyle. Thus prostitutes are set up to take the fall. In the film, Franco is accused of witchcraft, since she had obviously bewitched legions of men. She makes a stirring statement on behalf of women, however, and is saved from certain death when her many clients are shamed by Marco into standing up for her.

In real life, Franco was in fact tried twice by the Inquisition in 1580 for the alleged offense of performing heretical incantations in her home. Chapter 5 of Rosenthal’s book contains a wealth of interesting and valuable information about the various inquisitorial trials for heresy and witchcraft that occurred around this time in Venice and about Franco’s trials in particular. Nobody in Venice was condemned to death or severely tortured as a result of these trials, but conviction would mean public humiliation and severe penalties such as banishment.