This Beautiful Fantastic
Tom Wilkinson as Alfie Stephenson and Jessica Brown Findlay as Bella Brown. Samuel Goldwyn Films
I recorded this some time ago and only just managed to find time to sit and watch . . . . . actually it was the day after we went to the woods so I only had enough energy to sit and watch . . . .
But it was lovely . . . . . I forgot about my aches and pains and completely lost myself in the story.
One review (never read them till afterwards!!) reads:
A charming, beautifully photographed modern fairy tale about love and gardening, This Beautiful Fantastic is worth seeing in spite of its dumb deterrent of a title. It’s an odd story about some very odd people guaranteed to grow on you. Written and directed with whimsical taste and obvious talent by Simon Aboud, the son-in-law of Paul McCartney, it’s different, gorgeous to look at, and you go away feeling good about life and lilacs.
My second film: Summerland
Summerland is a sun-drenched wartime drama starring Gemma Arterton as Alice, a reclusive writer whose live is upturned by the unwelcome arrival of an evacuee from London
This kept me guessing until almost the end but it was happy so that's ok. Another easy, charming film possibly good for 'that' time of the month!
The next evening I watched Knives Out.
I must admit I only watched this because of the cast list, Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Plummer?!?! yes!
Another entertaining film but not a sloppy one, a true detective.
Daniel Craig was a shock . . . . .
In the deliciously entertaining Knives Out, Johnson goes back to his roots with an updated homage to the Agatha Christie whodunnits he loved as a child, and to those “cheekily self-aware” screen adaptations in which Peter Ustinov would lead an all-star cast through a labyrinthine murder mystery.
The setting is a gothic pile in modern-day New England where crime-writer Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) has recently capped his 85th birthday celebrations by dying dramatically in his attic study. It looks like an open-and-shut suicide, but could one of Harlan’s variously leechy family members (witheringly described as a bunch of “self-made over-achievers”) have slit his throat? After all, the old man spent the evening settling old scores and “cleaning house”…
Three enjoyable films with a touch of humour.......
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