It’s okay; I’m wearing really big knickers.
Thank goodness for IMDB: I was linking to British director Gurinder Chadha last night and saw that she’s signed up to direct an adaptation of Louise Rennison’s totally hilarious young-adult novel Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging. ATFFS–as we insiders call it–is the kind of book that could easily lose its soul in the Hollywood grindhouse; it’s a smart, funny look at adolescent girlhood, and we at CH are a little afraid that it might get the Nancy Drew blandification treatment. It’ll take a strong, genuine voice to keep the story and the humor on track. But Chadha, who has won our undying love and respect with the climax sequence of Bend It Like Beckham, is surely the right woman for the job.
Plus, she’ll teach you to make aloo ghobi if you watch her DVD. We can’t argue with that.
June 6th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
I liked those movies, but didn’t really understand all the little cultural subtleties involved. Overall good stories everyone will like, however.
December 27th, 2008 at 6:35 am
have they made the movie to this book? if not when are/ were the auditions?
Thanks a bunchxxx