Seeing 'Brooklyn', the great movie.

Tuesday Feb 2nd

Morning at Memphis with first Guy, then Gloria, then Tom, it's getting into a habit. Guy is the young Wellington College alumnus who wants to become a film-making diplomat, or something in that field.

He is very articulate and likes company, so I accept him as a young student wanting to learn. He will soon begin his Uni year and no longer frequent Memphis, now is just his free time, wanting to meet people who come to the Memphis.

Gloria is full of praise for her Montreal find Elise, whom I found as equally charming, smart and generous as Gloria says she is. 

The young Kiwi bar manager who was gaoled in Myanmar for insulting Buddha...'when will they ever learn', in the words of Bob Dylan.

Here is the future diplomat....not yet eighteen and already making movies.

This had to happen, Merkel closing Germany's doors to refugees. She jumped in too fast.

The way Kiwis welcome the tourists...it is their biggest industry.

Back at home a conversation is struck up with Kevin, our neighbour. Tanguy is up for a chat and more than holds his own as we await the arrival of his new (old) bed base to replace the ill-fitting divan I had there before.

Just

out of Cuba Lighthouse Cinema having seen'Brooklyn', a film I had being looking forward very much to see and it did not disappoint thank goodness. With its exceptionally good casting, a woman Kiwi producer Finola Dwyer, and some excellent acting by the lead woman in Saoirse Ronan and Ellory Cohen playing the Italian heartthrob. It certainly worked for me and I think the whole audience which  was packed with women. 

The woman sitting next to me, an American and quite chatty, asked me if I was in the Book Group who were there and reading the Colm Toiban novel. It won awardsapprarently and it was a tearjerker, but sensibly they had given the script to Nick Hornby to write and it was a most  engaging script. It is worthy of a nomination by the Academy but given its light romantic genre it may not win though it thoroughly deserves a gong.