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Murphy's Law (2003)
Very Powerful Psycho Drama about Psychos - back from Wars in Afghanistan and Northern Ireland
No comedy. No Love, but you have got to like Murphy even a little bit,,,if you like this kind of stuff...Whilst some kids get recruited to go to war - see war and do kill people, very few if any become actors like Murphy...
Murphy (James Nesbitt) has got Screen Presence...He scares the shxt out of me, and that is just on the Telly..
Way more darker than what was actually going on then, and possibly now.
This ain't Starskey & Hutch. - even the Americans had some humour....and this is most definitely not the UK Cop Series, where Bodie had a 3 litre Capri With Doyle - The Professionals..
That was Class, it was also funny.
This is not, and does not reflect reality..
Most soldiers come back from war extremely mentally and physically not well often missing legs (very brave about it).. The last thing they want to do is be a film star, thug, police or an army on any side in Belfast
If i watched any more of this I would Have nightmares. Not suitable for me, nor Children.
Try Apocalypse Now, or Silence of the Lambs.
Outnumbered (2007)
Brilliant - should have watched this in 2007 but too busy being a Dad. Totally hilarious and authentic.
There are so many pre-woke jokes in this, where you can see its, just kind of starting, there is absolutely no way, this could be made now.
The children, especially the youngest are totally amazing.
Quote from the youngest (Ramona Marquez 5 years old) "We don't prepare. We just go on the set and the directors tell us what the scene is about. Then, when we start to film, I'll just do it as Karen. It's not that hard."
I thought I recognised Clair Skinner, though not so much her on-screen husband Hugh Dennis.
They played it so well (and it really is like this bringing kids up in London) they got married in real life. They are probably on to Grandkids now, like us.
Some people put Children and other people's Children First. Some people swap their Children for Airmiles, whilst my wife and I took our kids with us and their Best Friends, if their parents agreed.
This is so like real life, and mum or dad knocks on the door. Perfectly behaved all day, but they do not want to go home.
Children are a Total Blessing.
Clair Skinner who I knew nothing before today, looks almost identical to my Ex.. Its not her, cos she would be about 5 at the time at Oldham Rep..
She plays the role of my wife so brilliantly, ...
Bodkin (2024)
It gets a lot better after it moves from London to Ireland
The first thing I noticed - the Executive Producers...so I thought this is going to be dire.. I mean wtf does the Ex American President and His Wife know or have any interest in a little village in Ireland. It was obviously a comedy Spy Thriller from the Start - The Guardian - Journalist - Whistleblower - Dead - Sure this has been done before...but then it gets very much better...and the script is very much on topic.
Ireland is far more Beautiful than this..if you get the sunshine...The Irish pubs and music are completely authentic, as is the rain.
The actors don't seem to act, but are just part of the story..and lived their lives just filming it - being the people they were portraying... Some of it is a bit disjointed and stuck together...but empathised with most of the characters especially the girl on the e-scooter. "It was just lying there so I borrowed it"
So far, there is no hardcore violence, no drugs, and hardly a hint of sex. It's an Irish Film. It's safe to let your kids watch it, or even travel to Ireland with them. The Irish have a Charm of their own.
Bored shitless by Episode 4. I couldn't take any more.
Les combattantes (2022)
Brillante nouvelle série télévisée française sur la Première Guerre mondiale, AI traduite en anglais (US), lipsync génial
Most powerful anti-war film, I have seen since "Apocalypse Now" (American) or The 9th Company (Russian)
The French Countryside and the French Girls, especially the Nuns Magnifique. The story and the character development, well if you end up in a war and you are about to die on the wrong side ( how can you not fall in love with The Nurse dressed as a Nun) who is learning to be a surgeon, stitching up your guts to hopefully save your life)
I have seen some English Nuns in My Life, but nothing like these French Girls - all Dressed So Beautifully.
I am only up to Episode 2. Although I don't speak French too well, I normally prefer a French Film spoken in French with English (English ) Subtitles. I find the American accents slightly annoying. Whilst I am very anti-war..My Grandfather(a music teacher from Scotland) was there in France in WW1, and survived it. My Mum loved him to bits. And grew up in France after the war as a Peasant Girl on a farm until her Dad dropped dead (appendicitis) when she was about 10. So this film rings true. Edit - I feel a bit daft now, because Netflix allows you to change the American accents to in this case the original French. Up to Episode 8 Now. It's much better in French with English subtitles.
Maybe this film is not just about WW1 in France but whats going on now in 2024 (Ukraine (US) Palestine etc.
Magnifique Film Francais - 10.
I have learned so much French..just by watching this in French. This film is extremely fast, and it's got so many complex emotions in it war, catholic church, rich and poor, etc - that I guess there was a discussion - can we put this in too ? It's only a 20 second scene... Oh go on then.
Americans and British do not (so far as I am aware) make films like this any more, if ever.
Three Identical Strangers (2018)
Totally Fascinating - and Very Honest - except the Research has not been Published
Whilst I have always had a strong interest in psychology, and family matters, like who am I, e.g. Compared to my brothers and sisters, I have only known fairly briefly - maybe three sets of identical twins, and no triplicates.
Surprisingly for me, I do not have a major ethical problem, with the origins of this Research, and would be amazed if similar research is not still ongoing. This is likely to be the tip of the iceberg, particularly with far more multiple births over the last 20-30 years due to fertility treatment.
My own observations, are that skills do run in families, and many such skills are genetically inherited, sometimes skipping a generation.
Nurture is of course incredibly important, and eg if you have a happy childhood, and get lucky, you are probably likely to meet someone very like your Mum, and repeat the experience, without thinking about it - it just kind of happens. It's always a good sign, when you really like your mother-in-law. - and she does too.
That is not to negate adoption, but Birth is not a blank page. If your Mum or Dad, is one of the Best Athletes in The World, there is a fair chance you will be pretty good too - even if adopted, if you get loads of love and encouragement. They adopted you, because they wanted you.
Maid (2021)
Maid is Seriously Brilliant, though its a sad reflection on our current times.
Never doing particularly well, the father of the child, drinks too much alcohol, and whilst he is not violent to the mother or the child, his frustration results him in punching a hole in the wall of his trailer truck, and broken glass ends up in the hair of their child - a baby girl about 2 years old who is the star of the show..
So the mother, does her best to actually get a job, and does, but she is very short of friends...even her Mum in another trailer truck - still living in the 70's and the colours of art. But can't handle looking after her grand daughter, for more than a couple of hours. The mother tries her best, looking after her daughter who she clearly loves, more than anything, in a world gone mad and exhibits the most amazing determination to be completely honest, as it gets worse and worse, as she tries to keep her daughter, whilst battling the Catch22 system. "Can't get a job, unless I have someone I can trust to look after my child"
I have absolutely no idea what happens next, but this is totally enthralling and quite obviously true.
Thank you to everyone from the person who's idea it was, and who wrote the script, and put it all together...This is Completely Brilliant..The Star of The Show is Quite Obviously Maddy Boyd.
Kindling (2023)
This is so Real - Every Character and almost Every Scene About being 18 Now.
Describing it about friends and family and one of the kids, preparing for his "death", being supported , by his friends and family, and a girl he has just met, does not do it justice...
Though its all true...Life Really is like this.
This is Children's Growing Up Bliss in England, when you realise you are a Teenager - Every Character's Emotional Vulnerability explored, but not in a nasty way, but with Love.
How can you not love this movie, if you were ever a teenager. So many concepts are explored re life and death and the cosmos, and time and the universe and what happens next.
I don't know what happens next, cos I am only half way through the film.
Beautiful.
10.
On Chesil Beach (2017)
Interminably boring after an hour of this the most exciting thing is when they get a stereo amplifier
Beautifully photographed, but the only interesting character here, after one hour is the brain damaged mother, played by Anne Marie-Duff, who is hardly in it, and hardly at all when fully clothed.
I can't believe Oxford was like this even in 1962 (its probably even worse now with the same boring people).
When is something, anything, going to happen?
Its supposed to be about the wedding night of posh people set at a hotel near Chesil Beach, a place I know well, interspersed with flashbacks leading up to the main characters, still after an hour, not succeeding yet at getting undressed on the wedding bed.
How did such people ever reproduce?
The Catch (2023)
Best Recent British Crime Thriller about Cornish Fisherman since we last went to Cornwall during Covid
Whilst it starts off a bit slow...it is completely normal in British Culture...She invites her new boyfriend (obviously totally in love.) Abbie can't stop smiling (great perfomance by Poppy Gilbert) and she invites him in up the garden path to meet her family...and he is kind of dreading it - "Don't worry - I know they will love you - even my Dad)"
But they don't. There is a Guilty Secret somewhere, and lots of people (far above normal for a Cornish Fishing) end up Dead. Some of the deaths are obviously normal - kids do go swimming in the English Channel - its cold - its tough and most survive...they know the sea is cold, and it can get really rough..
The death rate in this film gradually goes up from like chance - to far above normal - such like it is way beyond Agatha Christie - but got the same kind of vibe. Almost everyone is suspect - especially the ex army types. I've not seen the ending yet, cos most of the obvious suspects are already dead.
Brilliant Performance by All The Actors - none of who'm I disliked - cos I still don't know who The Killer was.
This is now a 10.
My Mum and Dad met on a Beach in Cornwall Polzeath.
Who Is Erin Carter? (2023)
Evin Ahmad - Erin Carter - a Thriller from Barcelona
OK its a little bit contrived, you don't normally get a nice English teacher, moved to Barcelona and become a one girl army in between the start and finish of the childrens musical show, which her daughter has been banned from, cos she doesn't like a boy in her class....and you are left wondering, no matter how sweet she is, that she may be almost exactly like her Mum - maybe a psycho too, who can stand up to the boys if they are rude to her..
If this had been filmed in London or New York or Los Angeles - no one would think that this is much different from normal...
But Barcelona??? We have been to Barcelona...It is probably the richest City in Europe...cos they work hard, creating stuff they can sell to the rest of Spain and the rest of the World.
Evin Ahmad is fantastic, and so is her kid. The male actors not so much - just brought in to read the story and try and act and say the words using stunt men for the difficult bits?
The Dropout (2022)
So New Relevant and Riveting - a Medico - Techno Screamer
A TV Series with the second episode got all Researchers dancing in a Circle Singing "We have Sepsis" because the prototype blood tester actually detected - "Negative for Sepsis" gets my full attention.
Whilst this is apparently a true story, I remember almost nothing of it, and do not know the outcome
But the development of new devices for non-invasive fast detection of eg heart rate, oxygen levels in blood - and in the example here - a Fast Detection for Sepsis is wonderful use of technology. I don't know if any such device exists.
This film works on so many levels, which I especially appreciate, cos I have worked on prototypes and I have worked with people very like "The Dropout" She was an American Girl too, in England, and we all loved her because she worked much harder than anyone else, and showed such a deep interest..to get it working, or we would all get fired.
It's especially good, after "Hello World", you get it to work reliably. Lying and Scamming, tends not to work too well. Maybe there is a Moral here too. Episode 3 is even more on topic about now.
This Town (2024)
British / Irish / Jamaican / Black / White / Political / Music / Drama at its Best / Steven Knight / Peaky Blinders
This is how we were in 1981 Belfast / Birmingham and Coventry and more recently in 2011 when they burned parts of Tottenham (North London) and the Carpet Shop in Croydon (South London) down...
Its more about poverty than immigration...and for a kid, seeming to have not much of a chance - regardless of whether black or white...and if you are a kid at school falling in love, and just asking for a date - and you are distraught, far more upset about that, than the police hitting you, with a truncheon cos you got caught up in a riot, and the buses weren't running cos Birmingham (England) was on fire and you couldn't smell the smoke. And were just walking home alone from school.
Very fast moving, and also very funny. Dunno if Cat Litter can convert cheap Red Diesel for Farmers to Expensive Clear Diesel for Cars, but most of the other stuff about Fertilisers is probably True...
As is the Music bringing kids of all colours together to make friends and Dance.
About the only decent thing the BBC did before this was The Old Grey Whistle Test... but they have excelled themselves here...and so have we, our kids, and our grandkids
It's not about the colour of your skin. It's about the person you are and music, art and dance and working together to solve problems, create useful things not burning the place down.
White Lines (2020)
Summer Holiday (1963) - 24 hr Party People (2002) Redone in 2020 - Crap - but Funny and Much Better Than the Reviews
I got through the first episode, which didn't particularly inspire me, except it covered a bit of Manchester and the beautiful island of Ibiza.. I found both the story and the actors, not particularly engaging such that I had much sympathy or empathy with them, and I thought it somewhat unlikely that I would watch Episode 2, but I have after fish and chips and it got better.
I detect a little bit of revisionism here. It covers a 20+ year period from Manchester to now. Some of us flew to Ibiza from Manchester 50+ years ago...and we are still here. We didn't go to any orgies, or drug fuelled parties, and even when we took our kids to the foam parties, were completely unaware of white lines. I guess people did do such drugs even in 1963, and probably very much more now. But in my experience most Brits abroad just want to get pissed.
Ibiza is incredibly beautiful, as is Benidorm - and this is much better than the films I have seen about Benidorm which is mainly over 60's on the pull, looking better than the 40 year olds here. Its still funny and mostly innocent.
Cleaning Up (2019)
Real life comedy set in the City of London with real life actors playing characters you can relate to now
What's with all the negative reviews?
Most of this is real and true. People do get addicted to gambling - horses, scratch cards, computer games, and casinos etc.
The mother and the kids, and the friends and relationships, are a true reflection of what life is like now, for Cleaners working in the shadow of Canary Wharf.
Whilst some of it might seem somewhat implausible (what do cleaners know, when most of the staff have left the office leaving almost everything on open display?)
This barely hints at the real corruption in the City of London, or Wall Street. It does not delve that deep. Its pretty much a family and friends film, where parents split up, life is tough and the Children love their Mum, as much as she loves them. The 15 year old daughter is trying her best to get her Mum to Gambler's Anonymous - and says she will come too in support.
Its not about drugs, alcohol abuse, violence, or sex...It's about lying, faking it, and possibly getting away with it, and the excitement of being scared shitless, if the authorities actually discover your dishonesty, and being the poorest in the corrupt food chain, actually being the ones to end up in jail, with the real villains stealing Billions get away scot free.
The family stuff with the kids and parties totally authentic, and even the young lodger who can do stuff with electronics, plays his part brilliantly, as if he actually does this for a living when not acting and entertaining children as a magician.
Luzzu (2021)
Lovely Drama about a Man and his Boat catching Fish in Malta to Provide food for his Wife and Young Child
I liked this film almost instantly, cos it was so new and on-topic, about fisherman and boats inherited from generations before like almost forever... (as about as Christian as you can get) even if they do speak mostly Maltease with some English subtitles, when speaking English.
I have personal experience of all these things, including spending 2 weeks with my then Girlfriend about 45 years ago in St Paul's Bay and getting the Ferry to Gozo..
My Mum, very Christian and religious had just got back from Malta, and she suggested us two had only just met would love it and we did...
But this film is not about my ancient history (we split up)..but about the love of a man and a woman and their baby and trying to survive in the most difficult circumstances, when the small fishing boats are replaced by trawlers destroying the sea bed in the med, which I know well
The acting is so good, its almost like a documentary..In fact most of the actors are very much for real Malteasers. They just seem so completely innocent, and want their lives involving the most beautiful wooden hand painted fishing boats to go on, after they have rebuilt them. I'm sure it will. This film is not heavy. It's soft and nice portraying the lives of real people who live in Malta now.
The English Game (2020)
Awesome Series - some history of Football but more about Life and Babies
Whilst this is fairly accurate (so far as I know) about the history of Football (Soccer) mainly set in Lancashire (England) and Eton (England) and Glasgow (Scotland)...that is just the Palette.of a Series supposedly about football, but really about dramatic real personal relationships as valid as 150 years ago, as they are now.
I have been rivetted to it for the first 4 episodes. I admit I am biased cos I was born and brought up in Lancashire, and my team was Oldham Athletic from the age of 7, though most of my life I have lived in London (near Eton but not posh)
This series explores pretty much every emotion rich vs poor (Grim Up North vs Posh Southern Softies), friendship, loyalty, love, betrayal etc) from both a male and female point of view and the shock of becoming pregnant (whilst in love) but not married and most certainly not blessed by the clergy - oh the shock and disgust of a baby turning up??? How did that happen?
And how come, as you come from Scotland, you are now playing for Darwen, and then Blackburn?
It's Football, Its Life....some people are obsessed with it, but even if you have almost no interest in Football, nor Lancashire, you may find this Series very rewarding, if you have lived and understand family, love, loss, recovery, and opportunity.
The Souvenir (2019)
Beyond dire. A complete boring travesty of what London was like in the 1980's
London in the 1980's was an adventure for young people, with every culture under the sun. Everything you could possibly want to do and see in any City in the World. Almost everyone was out after work experiencing it and doing something different nearly every night. London then was a fun town and still is.
This film portrays almost nothing of this. It seems mainly about two supposedly posh people wanting to make a film about possibly Sunderland and it being grim up north....but they haven't actually got any ideas, and are the most boring characters you could ever come across. Who exactly are they? Apparently they have known each other since childhood, but are not brother and sister, though there seems to be actually no sexual chemistry or excitement between them whatsoever
I have just wasted nearly an hour of my life waiting for something to happen. I just couldn't take any more. The film is not uplifting depressing or actually anything to inspire you to turn it off, or if you actually saw it in a cinema, rummage around between the seats trying to find some litter to take outside, and put in a bin. Who actually paid for this monumental piece of rubbish to be made in the first place. Some "artistic" people obviously have far more money than sense.
If you for example like the Tate Modern art gallery, and random pieces of junk arranged in an "artistic" way to show to your rich friends how super they are, then even you will probably find sitting on the toilet more interesting than watching this.
If I had arrived from "Up North" and found London like this, I would have gone straight back to Sunderland.
It might be grim up north, but at least there are some really interesting people. There are in London too, but you won't find them in this film.
True Spirit (2023)
True Spirit - Beyond Belief - Because its True - Best Aussie Film Ever. Best Sailing Film yet
OK I am slightly biased about what makes a great film...cos of my own family and sailing and stuff...
This one ticks all the boxes - even at the most fundamental level - lovely family - Sailing and swimming since young..........
The sailing boat scenes - interior is pretty easy for a film crew - but still totally authentic...even if it's her originals...
Most of the storm scenes, also totally authentic, except when you find yourself in one, the last thing you think about is filming it...You are doing your best to save your life....when your sailing boat has done a 180, but is not quite upside down.
This film is full of family love and adventure, and being really strong in the face of not just loneliness but possible death.
Just keep on going - especially if you are just 16.
True Things (2021)
As True as it Gets in England now - Reality in an Excellent Film
Possibly because I recognise, not only the locations, and all the emotions, as anyone a bit shy, just wanting to meet a friend - hopefully a girlfriend or a boyfriend - and sometimes all the awkwardness when fixed up with a blind date by a "friend"...when you have got a crap job at the job centre, living alone just trying to do your best...
Most extrovert people, simply will not understand this - they will think it is as boring as watching wallpaper drying and they would rather watch the latest star wars film or any other hollywood blockuster, never recognising the emotional depth in this film made by people who work for the BBC making Films at their best.
Sure there is a bit of sadness and loneliness in this film, but also joy and happiness - maybe falling in love for the first time, just wanting it to work, whilst realising it probably won't - but it all adds to your experience - and you kind of change having gained some experience.
This is the Reality now, in many people's young lives. Culture has changed, but most boys and girls are still the same. They just want to find someone to love, and hopefully form a family one day.
The Old Oak (2023)
Old Oak about Now in The North East of England - Ken Loach (87) at his Finest
If you liked Kes - You will love this...
Its clean its mean - it explores almost every human relationship going on now in the North East of England.
I have to admit a degree of bias - My Dad came from Stockton-on-Tees - but not quite a Geordie..(Newcastle - Tyneside)
and this bus load of Syrians turn up with no warning from the council - and they are all as poor as each other..except the bombs aren't falling in Easington
The depths of the human spirit - from multiple different points of is explored as if it is live which it is..in a Movie..Actors used - Not a Documentary
It is highly unusual for anyone to actually make a movie as good as this...Americans...Hollywood.... Jesus?.
It is just so cuttingly honest.
Northern English Working Class Culture at its Best...presented just as it is - with a Photographer and her Family from Syria trying to help .
Lykkeland (2018)
The Very Best From Norway - Just WOW
This Norwegian TV Series (mostly in Norwegian and American) is in a class of its own.
Its got every boy girl emotion going from just being kind of friends....to the first kiss.. later
There are almost no English People in it...
Whist it is a drama about Norway, The North Sea, Fishing, and Oil and Gas...and Diving all of which of at the age of 70 I have some experience (and I think it is historically accurate - Thatcher did tell them to flare off the gas...but that was never point so far as I can tell... of Lykkeland.
It was all the different relationships, mostly done in Norwegian...and a little bit of politics and liking even the Americans, and completely falling in love with the support actress with the baby Toril Torstensen played by Malene Wadel.
Totally Beautiful.- About human relationships more than oil and gas..I found the diving sequences particularly exciting - a bit like humans walking on the moon, but doing it for real in The North Sea...when you hit rock bottom..don't come up too fast.
Class. Its on BBC iplayer.
Aftersun (2022)
Excruciatingly Bizarrely Brilliant from the Perception of an 11 year old Scottish Girl on Holiday with her Dad
The film starts off almost like a blank canvas, and we arrive on the bus from the UK, in Spain and the Daughter (11) is videoing the journey with the new videocamera that her Dad bought at the Airport. (Almost everyone with kids born in the UK 30 years ago has done that)..
It starts off, almost like a home movie. They arrive in the middle of the night, and there is no one at reception (totally normal)...They get to their room, but there is only one double bed...Dad insists he ordered two beds - One for him and one for his Daughter...but they are so tired they fall asleep anyway...
Next day - totally normal typical - hot Spain swimming pool - mostly British kids - but where is Mum?
Mum, who the daughter lives with - ain't there...She has sent her on holiday with her Dad.
Some of the kids, think her Dad is her older brother.,,,but he explains - I am her Dad...and he encourages her to mix with the kids, and she encourages her Dad to mix with the adults - but he rarely does, as he tries to be so protective of his daughter as he tries to teach her the basis of self defence.
So the two of them do their best to have a normal happy holiday in Spain - doing things - like we all normally do...but there is no Mum or even Girlfriend for her Dad...and she is not quite ready for a Boyfriend yet - but she does her best.
I watched this film almost crying for her Dad...Please just meet a Girl on holiday..
So true to life, almost painful to watch. Its got every childhood holiday scene in the book.
She quite obviously loves her Dad...and he loves his Daughter.
Mum wasn't There.
The acting is so brilliant, its like they weren't acting. So real.
I would have given this film a 10..even for the Morrcan carpet scene. Torremolinos is very close to Morroco ..but then out of the blue...Father and Daughter are in Turkey - with the mud scene...I could even accept that...The Author was reflecting her life as an adult, as a child..Maybe she did go to Turkey too with her dad..
but where did the brief female gay scene come from? That was totally inappropriate even if true.
À plein temps (2021)
Totalement génial magnifique film français moderne
Don't concern yourself that this film is set in Paris, and the language is in French. The audio dialogue is crisp and clear, far better than most American and British films that require subtitles to understand what the actors are saying with audio effects drowning out what was reputedly spoken in English. OK I did read the subtitles in English, but I didn't notice them cos this film is an emotional roller coaster - if you have any experience of life, relationships, children, jobs and losing them..and the brink of poverty..
Whilst set in Paris 3 years ago, it is more about now, than 2021. It could equally have been set in London, Manchester or Berlin today.
It's a very fast film, with this now single mum, with two young children, who does her very best to put first, trying to keep her job, whilst trying to find a better one, coping with Childminders, whilst trying to travel into Paris every day, during strikes, protests - the trains, buses, sometimes run ( like London now ).
She has so much determination, you think at any moment, she is going to breakdown, but can't for the sake of her Children. She has to carry on.
The Durrells (2016)
Greek Fun Time - Boring English Family Love Corfu
Not having read a Durrell book in my life, I was pleasantly surprised at how accurately at least the first two episodes of this series portrays life, as we found The Greek Islands - and the Greek people travelling from England initially as just a couple, and when married, with our babies, and later their friends too..
We have probably spent more than a year of our lives (mainly 2 weeks at a time) in the Greek Islands - because the Greek people are just so lovely, and welcoming and happy especially with Children..
Whilst this was set in the 1930s, and this could be a soft British comedy soap relocated from Scarbrough to Corfu (incredibly hot - and crystal clear sea) it made me laugh a lot about how some English families really are, when in a foreign county. Much of the comedy is understated underwhelming in potential embarrassment as if all the actors are behaving like children, before they go for a swim in the cool blue sea.
This is not Hollywood, and whilst most of the characters , I personally found likeable (possibly because of arriving in Corfu a couple of times - and just going Wow - wife kids and friends) it is not all action, bombs, guns, murder and worrying if we are going to starve to death, or the teenager is going to need an abortion, before her first kiss...it does reflect many realities of Greeks in their own country welcoming visitors, yet retaining their own culture,beliefs and way of life. Its not drunkaholic Benidorm 24hr Party people. Even Mykonos is not like that. It's far more laid back, and the trust overwhelming (its too hot now - siesta time -pay tonight or tomorrow or when you come back when its cool)
Last Night in Soho (2021)
Thomasin Mckenzie Plays a Stormer - Again
I was most intrigued by the BBC short series. "Life after Life", and the lead actress in it Thomasin McKenzie, that it was her rather than Soho, that almost compelled me to watch "Last Night in Soho".
Both films are totally weird, if you have a conventional world view.and believe that time starts from zero and progresses in a straight line to infinity.
Possibly because Thomasin McKenzie was born in New Zealand, despite her apparent innocence, fragilty and deliicate voice, she is totally Brilliant in both films (which share some similar concepts) and brings to the screen a reality that I have personally experienced moving to London, and for example using The Marquee in Wardour Street, Soho as my favourite local music pub for 10 years in the 1980's.
"Last Night in Soho" does more than that, it covers mainly music related events in London from now with psychopathic switch backs to the 1960's.
The music is completely brilliant, and the cultural diffrences in London over the last 60 years wonderfully portrayed, though in reality nothing much has changed.