If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.
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The Metamorphosis of Birds 2020
The images are simple. While Beatriz’s love, in layers, burns through all.
This poetic film is a testament to early life. When we are still in contact with our parents and grandparents.
I am sure, when my eyesight is shot and hair runs free from my ears, I will reflect back on how everything was just right.
It will be to a time like now. Before we took their place and tried to salvage what we could from the sea.
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Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks 2002
Great Christmas viewing,
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The Remains of the Day 1993
Stewart Lee watched a one man performance of Hamlet. The audience were sat around a table, with Lego figurines used as characters. While the actor, through the miniature, performed the dialogue. Lee reckons why this show possible, and even good, was because Shakespeare is of such high quality.
The same is true of The Remains of the Day. It is the perfect novel. And so, an adapted production would be substantial. But Hopkins and Thompson, are many degrees from mere Lego…
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Withnail & I 1987
To be English is an amusing misery. As soon as any of us look vaguely of age, we are initiated in a booze fuelled celebration. For Withnail, all his talent is drained by it. I is merely passing through.
Camberwell carrots and haughty upper classes; scavenging food amidst discussion of empire; bohemian Londoners and artless farmers. For better or worse, this is a peculiar isle.
I watched this again on New Years Day with a hangover the size of Sunderland.…
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