In-Flight Entertainment
Odd flight today - I don't often get long-haul flights that start early enough for the main meal they serve to be breakfast, but the first flight of the day from London to New York is one such.
Due to a 90 minute delay in departing (when there's a discrepancy between the load sheet and what's in the hold, I'm actually okay with them taking the time to sort it out), I ended up having 'breakfast', at about 12:30, then after doing some work, got caught up on some films I'd missed at the cinema.
I watched The Descent, which is very good - lots of jumps, and very, very creepy. Also extremely bleak, pretty much from beginning to end.
And I also watched a film called Festival, which I've wanted to see for a while. If you've been with me a while, you'll remember that I'm a big fan of a TV series called The Book Group (coincidentally with someone from the cast of The Descent in its cast). Festival is a film written and directed by the woman who wrote and directed that. It's set in Edinburgh at the time of the festival, and it's ensemble-ish, with various plot threads running alongside each other. As with pretty much any exercise of this type, some of the characters and plots work better than others, but generally, there's more good than bad.
It's like The Book Group in that director woman doesn't flinch from a very, very honest presentation of sex, and in the film she's pretty explicit. This isn't beautiful softly lit Hollywood sex - this is as untidy as the real thing usually is. It's also close to graphic enough that occasionally I worried what the people who could also see my screen must think I was watching....
It's probably not what I'd call a great film, but it is a good one that I'll watch out for on DVD.
September 13th, 2005 - 23:03
I hadn’t realised that was by Annie Griffin. I loved , but the reviews of that I read were mixed at best. If I’d known who was behind it I’d definitely have given the film a chance regardless.
I’ll certainly have to keep an eye out for the DVD release of .