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
Dir: Eric Rohmer.
Cast: Andy Gillet, Stephanie Crayencour, Cecile Cassel, Veronique Reymond, Jocelyn Quivrin
Description: Celadon and his sweetheart, the shepherdess Astrea, are madly in love. A misunderstanding leads Astrea to conclude that her beloved Celadon has been unfaithful. Unraged, she banishes him forever from her sight and thus he flings himself into a river rather than suffer the heartbreak. Water nymph Galathee rescues Celadon from an early grave and spirits him away, smitten as she is with the shepherd while Astrea and Celadon's brother Lycidas mourn the man they believe to have drowned. Thankfully, kind druid Adamas persuades Celadon to return to Astrea in the guise of a woman to prove his love to her.
Country: FR/ITA/SP. 2007. 109mins
Pastoral fantasy: Andy Gillet and Stéphanie Crayencour are the lovers
Eric Rohmer, scion of the French New Wave and long after, is now 88 and says this strange pastoral fantasy, based on a 17th-century novel by Honoré d’Urfe and set in the woodlands of fifth-century Gaul, may well be his last film.
Astrea (Stéphanie Crayencour) is a pretty shepherdess and Celadon (Andy Gillet) loves her dearly. Unfortunately he is observed flirting with someone else and tries to drown himself when she won’t forgive him.
He is rescued and nursed back to health by a group of nymphs and a wise old druid tells him that the rules of courtly love, which have made him determined to obey her by remaining out of her sight, can sometimes be disobeyed. So he disguises himself as a woman, approaches her and finds that she seizes upon him avidly. What does it matter if he’s changed sex?
Those who know Rohmer’s Moral tales well will detect in this dreamy fable some familiar musings on life, love and desire. But I wish the acting was less like amateur dramatics and the plot less like a slightly camp game.
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