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Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers (Paperback)

by Antonia Quirke (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd (5 Feb 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007182759
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007182756
  • Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.7 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 520,673 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Antonia's book is wonderfully written!The Drunk in Edinburgh and the Boyfriend and the Car are brilliant and underneath the (deliberately) purple prose about actors is a real, and to me, moving understanding of the craft. Please pass these words on -- it is a rare and daring book.' Alan Rickman 'Quirke comes across as a disarming mix of David Thomson and Jenny Diski, all the while remaining unique and idiosyncratic.' Waterstones Books Quarterly


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'...a mad, marvellous film-crazed memoir...beautifully written,
shamelessly honest and deeply comical...extremely funny.'
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, 27 Jun 2009
By C. Copp (Exeter, Devonshire, UK) - See all my reviews
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Oh boy oh boy...this is the sort of book I had been waiting for...a knowing and very (very) funny read....you fall in love with the main character easily...I like to have characters I can laugh with and at...this is a very readable book.....I just could not put it down...it has lots of quirky insights....and characters that both infuriate and make you laugh out loud...more please.
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10 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Very funny/quirky writing on love and actors, 11 Mar 2007
I picked this up on a whim after seeing positive reviews in the papers,and had no idea what to expect. I ended up staying up half the night reading it because I couldn't put it down. It's laugh out loud funny, with brilliant writing on London life (great bits on Withnail's Camden), modern relationships and Holloywood actors. Ms Quirke writes insightfully on cinema without being over intellectual - and most of the actors she covers ones we all know and love or hate (Depardieu, Cruise, Depp, Buscemi, Keanu Reeves, etc.) If you're a film buff you'll be nod in agreement with most of her observations (ie. loved the ongoing gag on Woody Allen's annual 'return to form' as well as the sketch on what was going through De Niro's mind as he signed the contract for 'Meet the Parents 2"). Really what makes the book is her writing style, a little reminscent of David Sedaris, that makes even her observations on daily life entertaining. A very enjoyable read.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Strange indeed, 21 Jun 2009
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Antonia Quirke's engaging autobiography highlights her fascination with actors, in typically dry style. It all goes back to her pre-pubescent adoration for Hollywood hunks and heart-throbs such as Marlon Brando, Robert Mitchum, Christopher Walken and Russell Crowe, and Quirke waxes lyrical about these true heavyweights and many more of their ilk.

Side by side with these breathy and admiring descriptions of her favourite stars come vignettes about Quirke's own life, and you can see why she retreats into fantasy as much as possible, given her exceedingly ordinary Mancunian upbringing and a succession of failures and unimaginative career moves that lead her to her final great passion, reviewing movies for a local paper.

Quirke goes on to talk about the men that she has met and attempted to match up to her on-screen idols, and this is where the book really comes into its own as she describes encounters and beaus who invariably fail to live up to her romantic expectations, despite often having extremely colourful lives themselves. Accessible, witty and charming, this is simply a frothy and entertaining read.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Move over Ms.Jones
I have a confession, I've not read this cover to cover, that is to say I've read it BUT by dipping in to it. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Eve

4.0 out of 5 stars Movie Fan Tells Her Life Story....Maybe
Antonia Quirke is certainly not constrained by the formality of any one writing style. She writes sometimes like an essayist, sometimes like a diarist. Read more
Published 2 months ago by D. M. Farmbrough

5.0 out of 5 stars Not What I was Expecting - But Better
I read the description but still thought this was going to be a novel, so the first couple of pages annoyed me, only because I was annoyed with myself. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Funny and easy going
Half auto biography and half love letter to the movies, I found this book to be a lightweight but genuinely entertaining read and at times laugh out loud funny... Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars Quirky and fun, but
Desctribed as 'quirky and fun' I rapidly became bored with second-hand 'humorous' tales of other people's failings, and started to become annoyed by page 25. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Jonesy

5.0 out of 5 stars The Diverting Quirke-iness of Antonia: Towards an appreciation of a not so dumb blonde
Not many people make it a habit to read radio review columns in newspapers or magazines I should imagine. I don't either, but there is one exception. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Tony Floyd

2.0 out of 5 stars Indepth and thought provoking
I honestly tried a number of times to get into this book. It has a great storyline but simply is a little hard going at times. Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars Awfull Book
Who is this written by. The writer says she is hard at it writing this book with a morning's before before lunch and then more in the afternoon. Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars Nobody's perfect...
What a very strange book this is. Part highly personal film crit, part equally personal memoir of Antonia's fragmented love life, the two conjoined by an approach to film (and... Read more
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2.0 out of 5 stars likes the sound of her own pen
I hoped that me and Ms Querke would get on. I enjoy her column work and respect the opinions of both Clive James and Will Self who contribute praise to the front cover. Read more
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