Filmography
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the_lady_lilySalmon Fishing in the Yemen
This hasn't got a great deal to recommend it - it's not dreadful, but it's not terribly exciting really. Also, there is a bit of heart-string tugging involving a boyfriend missing in action in Afghanistan which I found a) tenuous, b) a bit of an obviously strained plot device to create a Crisis in the last ten minutes and c) thus a bit in dubious taste.
That said, there are some amusing moments, some vaguely witty dialogue, a good comic turn from Kristin Scott Thomas, and some fairly ruthless black humour about the inner cynical workings of the British government. Actually, if there had been more of the political satire side and less soppy gushing, I think it would have been a better film.
But I was after something a bit marshmallowy for a gentle evening, and lo, this delivered. But I'm not entirely sure that it holds together in anything representing a critical sort of way, and would probably collapse if you poked it too closely. Actually, now I'm thinking about it, I can think of several places one might poke it and watch said collapse. But I had my brain turned off at the time, so you can make of that what you will.
This hasn't got a great deal to recommend it - it's not dreadful, but it's not terribly exciting really. Also, there is a bit of heart-string tugging involving a boyfriend missing in action in Afghanistan which I found a) tenuous, b) a bit of an obviously strained plot device to create a Crisis in the last ten minutes and c) thus a bit in dubious taste.
That said, there are some amusing moments, some vaguely witty dialogue, a good comic turn from Kristin Scott Thomas, and some fairly ruthless black humour about the inner cynical workings of the British government. Actually, if there had been more of the political satire side and less soppy gushing, I think it would have been a better film.
But I was after something a bit marshmallowy for a gentle evening, and lo, this delivered. But I'm not entirely sure that it holds together in anything representing a critical sort of way, and would probably collapse if you poked it too closely. Actually, now I'm thinking about it, I can think of several places one might poke it and watch said collapse. But I had my brain turned off at the time, so you can make of that what you will.
