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With a single dessert and just two glasses of wine our bill was kept in check - but the effort of doing so was not much fun
Babbo
Film
This is a film with beautiful performances and a visual style that urges you towards reflection
Bright Star
Theatre
Although the first half of Kwei-Armah’s production is pacy, funny and intelligent, the energy level then drops off
Seize The Day
I loved this film from start to finish. Take the girlfriend, tell your mum - I'd see it again tomorrow and will buy the dvd.
I saw this last night and can't remember the last time I was so moved in the theatre.
I have been to many of London's so-called best Japanese restaurants and none have been as good as the food that I've had at Aqua Kyoto
London,
Derek Malcolm's rating
Reader rating
Dancing days: Miki Nakatani plays a schoolteacher who falls from grace
Tetsuya Nakashima, who made the excellent Kamikaze Girls (now showing), tells the tale of Shou (Eita), a feckless young man who finds the body of a female tramp in a park and embarks on a journey to investigate her life.
The old woman turns out to have been a teacher called Matsuko, who fell from grace into prostitution. Miki Nakatani is good as Matsuko as Nakashima blazes retrospectively through the decades from the Fifties to the Eighties with stunning visuals and strange musical set pieces. Somehow it all makes sense, even if a lesser director might well have botched it.
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