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You don’t make an omelette without breaking eggs.
Posted: Fri – February 20, 2009 at 07:45 PM
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Reading & watching- The Translators (Régis Roinsard 2019) 20 September 2020This has been compared to Knives Out. I see why, but this is much more fun than that It's a locked room mystery and its elaborate twists aren't really surprising, but I loved every minute of it – helped perhaps by this being only the third time I've been to the movies in six months or so. Eight translators are locked in a high-security locatio […]
- Wallander, Season 2 (Henning Mankell 2010–2011) 15 September 2020Eleven 90-minute episodes! I prefer this to the British version with its strange disjunct between English regional accents and Swedish settings. Krister Henrikkson as Kurt Wallander is more convincingly downbeat than Kenneth Branagh who can't help carrying some Royal Shakespeare Company glamour with him.
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- Belvoir: A Room of One's Own (Virginia Woolf, Carissa Licciardello & Tom Wright) 12 September 2020Back to the live theatre in a half-full theatre, a mostly masked audience – a handful of people refused for reasons or unreasons of their own. I've never read Virginia Woolf's essay, and this was a terrific way of encountering it. Anita Hegh's rendering of it was weird for about the first third – the music of the sentences rendered in a way no […]
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