The Song of Lunch
Oct. 9th, 2010 08:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Decisions, decisions yesterday evening, as New Tricks clashed with The Song of Lunch, starring Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson. Since I’m recording the whole series of New Tricks, I opted for Alan Rickman. The Song of Lunch is a film adaptation of a poem by Christopher Reid in which former lovers meet in a restaurant. To be honest, this didn’t sound too promising and I suspected it would have been better as a radio play. In fact, Alan Rickman was so utterly mesmerizing as a sad, disillusioned middle aged man who hates his job and has never got over the loss of his woman, that time whizzed by. Luckily, Emma Thompson didn’t have much to do. I was very impressed by the number of memorable images in the poetry and the downbeat way it expressed the character’s feelings as he walks through Bloomsbury (ghosts of Viginia Woolf and T S Eliot) to the Italian restaurant which has annoyingly (to him but not to her) changed, for lunch and the glass half full which for me is half empty. Well done BBC 2: you’re sometimes worth the licence fee.
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Date: 2010-10-09 11:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-09 01:15 pm (UTC)I don't care for Emma Thompson, well spotted!
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Date: 2010-10-09 02:31 pm (UTC)Oddny
PS I don't have a live journal account but I do have Google and Blogger accounts. Should I put my blog address in the Open ID window? Sorry - probably an obvious answer that I've failed to grasp.
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Date: 2010-10-09 02:47 pm (UTC)I haven't commented on LJ anonymously, so I don't know what sort of box you see. It would probably stop your comments being screened. Do you have an actual blog?
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Date: 2010-10-09 03:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-09 03:54 pm (UTC)I can't remember how I found your blog but I like reading about your finds. I'm all for bargains.
Choices...... choices....
Date: 2010-10-09 06:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-10 06:58 am (UTC)Blogs
Date: 2010-10-10 07:44 am (UTC)http://oddnyslemonlife.blogspot.com/
but rather dull :-) and full of rants and raves.
Re: Blogs
Date: 2010-10-10 07:50 am (UTC)BTW you can have a free Live Journal account and just use it to see posts and make comments.
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Date: 2010-10-12 11:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-12 01:55 pm (UTC)It's terrible you have such poor broadband. I'm in the country but it's not bad at all (quickly touches wood). I suspect being so near the council offices has something to do with it.
They're bound to show the prog again some time.
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Date: 2010-10-13 05:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-13 06:14 pm (UTC)