Woar!
In a desperate attempt to get out and do something with yesterday, we went to the cinema (I know - radical), and I'm very pleased that we did. Hero, Zhang Yimou's 'new' film (actually two years old) is utterly amazing. A story of pre-unification China, the clever and complex story is impressive enough, but the visuals are simply stunning. Battles taking place in a leaf-filled clearing, on a lake, in a rain-soaked chess hall, all of them astonishing to watch, but some of the closer-up moments are every bit as intense.
David noted that for something like that, art-house is better than multiplex, because clearly there were people there who didn't 'get' the conventions and the style. Still, worth seeing wherever you can. Massively recommended.