The Movies We Watch
Feb. 9th, 2026 10:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
infrogmationEntertainment recently borrowed from library includes "The Secrets We Keep". Rather dark film about a Holocaust survivor who encounters a Nazi criminal living under an assumed identity in their home town. I saw some of the set filming in suburbs of New Orleans, and one of my pix is in the Wikipedia article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secrets_We_Keep#Production
This was at Rio Vista Park in Old Jefferson, used as the home of the protagonist - for exterior shots only. Inside, the house has a basement, clearly not set in South Louisiana.
Other locations I recognized included McDonough Park in Algiers and along Lafayette Street in the old part of Gretna.
While well acted, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone not interested in the film locations - pretty dark and IMO not satisfying.
In other entertainment set in post-WWII US, we've also been watching "Masters of Sex", lightly based Masters & Johnson. I've previously expressed being somewhat frustrated by how commonly real life good historical stories are adapted into entertainment with little fidelity to facts. This certainly applies here. Entertaining, mix of comedy, soap opera, and sex, with soap opera of largely fictional characters becoming more dominant as it progresses.
That and our usual Saturday night watching Svengoolie - most recently "The Gorgon", if one likes Hammer Horror films, it was one of those.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secrets_We_Keep#Production
This was at Rio Vista Park in Old Jefferson, used as the home of the protagonist - for exterior shots only. Inside, the house has a basement, clearly not set in South Louisiana.
Other locations I recognized included McDonough Park in Algiers and along Lafayette Street in the old part of Gretna.
While well acted, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone not interested in the film locations - pretty dark and IMO not satisfying.
In other entertainment set in post-WWII US, we've also been watching "Masters of Sex", lightly based Masters & Johnson. I've previously expressed being somewhat frustrated by how commonly real life good historical stories are adapted into entertainment with little fidelity to facts. This certainly applies here. Entertaining, mix of comedy, soap opera, and sex, with soap opera of largely fictional characters becoming more dominant as it progresses.
That and our usual Saturday night watching Svengoolie - most recently "The Gorgon", if one likes Hammer Horror films, it was one of those.
