Movie Review: THE HOLIDAY "Relationship Blues"
12/18/2006 03:33 PM by Gretchen Schauffler
Release Date: Dec 08, 2006; Rated: PG-13; Length: 135 Minutes; Genres: Comedy, Romance; With: Jack Black, Cameron Diaz, Jude Law and Kate Winslet
A woman wants to be alone for the Christmas holiday. Another wants to run away from her loneliness. An old man has learned to live alone. A gorgeous man has yet to learn to live with it. And a funny man is there just to make it funnier.
The movie The Holiday has a gem of a color story. Two women trade homes for two weeks and their homes are a huge part of the story. The color that speaks volumes for both women is blue, shades of blues.
Blues can be warm, like the well-worn slate colors in the quaint English cottage. The blue front door leads to candy-coated blue cabinets. There is a sense of old world charm, right down to the blue and white pottery.
The high tech, high-style LA villa sets blues off with a background of white walls, black trim, and slate floors. Of course, there is also a gorgeous blue swimming pool. The story fights the cliché of one home being warm and friendly and the other being cold and uninviting. Instead, it shows that both homes can transform the women who borrow them.
The fact is that the cozy English cottage had become a lonely cage, an excuse for isolation, for a woman who refused to move on with her life. Once in the LA villa, the woman blossoms and reaches out to people—bringing new acquaintances through the door and turning the villa into a warm home.
The villa had been a tower for a princess, where she looks at others from on high. When she moves into the cottage, she’s faced with an imperfect world of odd stone walls, where her pretense and past can no longer be avoided. She then has to come to terms with the one thing she has been avoiding—herself.
Shades of blues and natural wood, are about comfort, strength and security in this film. Here is how you can recreate either environment. For the vintage cottage, try Devine Pool, Spray, Horizon, Tulle, Ash, Latte, and Muslin. For the villa, try Devine Whip, Piping, Macadamia, Blue Silk, Storm, or Denim.
There are other environments in the movie, so please check them out and let us know what you think.
Gretchen Schauffler
Artist and Founder of Devine Color®
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My townhouse main floor is one open space. the entry is painted your beautiful Cocoa, the main living/study is Horizon (my favorite color!) and the kitchen is Storm. Two questions—can I paint the ceiling a color that would work with all three and the stairwell/upstairs hall that will work as well? Any suggestions? I’ve thought about changing the entry to a latte color of yours to match the stair well so its not so broken up but I love love love the cocoa against the horizon!
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