I really couldn’t warm to this nonsense and failed to understand the point.
Old man,wife died, he wants to put her ashes where they were happiest and so travels from John o’Groats to Lands End by bus and meets people. Some kind some unkind.
Spall acts a reasonable ill old man. (I am the gauge) but I feel ….like Michael Caine this is what I do so fit your story round me.
Hopefully he can stretch out as Polonius in the new Riz Ahmed Hamlet.
Seems available on most platforms.
For me, Timothy Spall is a one-trick pony, like Michael Caine. In all performances, it’s just Timothy being Timothy and not an individual character. Timothy was superb in Auf Wiedersehen Pet and Michael Caine was great in the 60s.
Steve Martin is one of those immense comic talents that started wasting his gift on dire rubbish after about 1991. Probably evokes the strongest paradox for me as one of my favorite actors of whom I don’t like most of the films they are in.
But even so, he’s got 6 or 7 complete masterpieces under his belt where the actor and the character have become inseparable.
Still working my way through the Paul Thomas Anderson ‘oeuvre’
I have not read the Thomas Pynchon novel.
One critic described both film and book as a stoner noir. The plot line does, perhaps intentionally,get a little hazy with each puff.
Most enjoyable.
Bluray for me but it is streamed.
For the first time since 1999’s ExistenZ, David Cronenburg returns to body-horror on this 2022 film, Crimes of the Future. Set in the near future where mankind is evolving at a ferocious pace, Viggo Mortensen and Lea Seydoux are performance artists who demonstrate live surgery to remove organs that he grows inside him. A deeply disturbing and dark film. If you like Cronenburg’s films then definitely worth watching. If you don’t ….
This one slipped under my radar. Cronenberg can be wildly hit and miss. At his best, he can brush shoulders with David Lynch. Naked Lunch was great. Videodrome. Great stuff.
Crash. Dead Ringers. Not so much. I might give this a whirl.
Daniel was hoping to spend his summer holidays in Floridawith his dad.But the estranged father tells him it’s inconvenient so he irritably stays at home with his mum,librarian Sue.
That’s the story line but it is told in such a kind,open,magical manner that you are drawn in helping them live through their gentle lives.
British Independent and to be found in the Amazon cinema of missed humane wonders.
