Walking: a wee'un then to the shop!

 

Cinema list 24

Poor Things:  magnificent in every way... go & see it! Go & see it... at least twice.

I cried... & meant it!  Will see it again, on the big screen... the least I can do!

48 hours later, I went to see this one again... it is still fkn magnificent! More tears!

One Life:  a simple tale simply told, it says much of British decency & compassion.

Nick Winton's actions would be neither supported nor allowed in Britain today!

American Fiction:  great movie... well observed. Well written. Well acted!

Jeffrey Wright is outstanding, his frustration, ire, & sense of inhabiting the periphery, palpable. The satire is sharp. The comedy often laugh-out-loud.

All of us strangers:  the film sings of grief & trauma, alienation & loneliness, love & rescue. Emotionally powerful, it enters the highs & lows of Adam's confined life (& self!) Brilliant central performances from Scott & Mescal anchor the sensitivity & sincerity, managing to skirt any sense of mawkishness. There was no having to work at digesting magical realism... the oddness flowed, unexplained & engagingly.    

The Zone of Interest:  weird in its banality & relative stillness... nowt much happens, but much is said of the passivity, dissociation, & complicity that enabled those who enacted the Holocaust. Sandra Huller & Christian Friedel centre the movie, as a 'normal' aspiring, middle class couple... building a comfortable family life for their five healthy happy children, on the back of the terrors of Auschwitz. 

They share their garden wall with the death camp - but Mum has planted vines to clothe those walls. It's brutal. You neither see nor escape the horror, the sounds of the camp beyond that wall never quieten! The mundane dread never releases!

The Holdovers:  loved it! Pretty much a triple-hander (altho Danny was great!) Covers much of life, loss, & living... but sharp & bitey with it!

Giamatti & Randolph are truthfully magnificent. Young Dominic Sessa a revelation. The gobbiness is often weary, but always wickedly good; disappointed; poignant. There is an 'optimism' here... but fkn life, eh? Make sure you see this movie.     

Wicked Little Letters:  love a sweary lass (or two, or more!) There's much of the adult panto about this'un, & I'm guessing many folk will pan the shite out of it...

but the slapstick, larger-than-life performances are fucking great.

A magnificent female cohort bounce the twat along, but Buckley & Colman dominate the dialogue, the (in)action &, ultimately, the frame. No-marks become tragedians; I mean, there are even three witches (Eileen Atkins great as ever!) Yeah, there's a shitload of anachronism & woke bollocks (rather be woke than an absolute cunt!)... but this movie do say much of the bullshit women STILL have to put up with.

Monkey Man:  relentless, & mental, & exhilarating. Patel wrote ve feme toon, sings ve feme toon... the lad done well! No-one in the screening moved an inch! Grand!   

     

Walking: locally... in January

 Another year... another photo...

Then I got home, & went for a stroll.

It rained...

then it rained some more...