I dipped into the Geisha film a couple of days ago for a few minutes.

I loved the book years ago and I thought the film was OK when I watched it years ago. This time around it seemed a little—-I don’t know, histrionic. I do love Gong Li though, she is stunning! But she is Chinese not Japanese. there was some flack about casting a Chinese actress in that film back in the day.

there’s a painting that I cannot get out of my mind, by a French painter I have purchased from in the past. It’s a Japanese woman in a in a kimono. I may have to buy that damn painting, it keeps haunting me.