A 'romcom' for wrinklies!

I, along with several hundred other wrinklies, went along to the film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel last night. It was as excellent as the reviews have indicated.  The main protaganists are played by seven of the very best British troupers around today and they did their stuff with what looked like, deceptively, effortless ease.  However, it was a pleasure to see young Dev Patel more than hold his own in that celebrated company.  He is a very good actor and I was interested to read that, being British born and raised, he had to take coaching lessons in order to perfect the Anglo-Indian accent needed for the role.  The film was a delight although I expect the social realists amongst us (or, ' The Glums', as I think of them) would sneer at the romantic veneer which covers the whole film.  Actually, there are one or two black threads running through the story which is good because all comedies need them.  Despite the sheer hell that is your average Cineworld complex - why do they raise the sound volumes for the utterly useless adverts which leave you wondering what the hell they are advertising? - you really do need to see it on a big screen in order to get the feel of the Indian street scenes - a sort of living, throbbing, pandemonium proof of chaos theory.  Don't miss it!

 

Comments

[rogerh]

I too enjoyed Best Exotic. Checking out the Web revealed that Dignity (sure you have heard of them) have a care home operation in India along with several other outfits. Reckon we will hear more about this - maybe from Lansley.

Met some wrinklies with a place in Goa - their deal is 'don't tell the kids if I get ill, just cast the ashes in the Arabian Sea and tell them afterwards' wise counsel I would say. They do you overnight in Goa.

I try and enter the CineCentre about 20 minutes after the appointed time - avoids those bl*&^ adverts - although the Orange anti-mobile ad is quite funny.

[David Duff]

I absolutely agree with you, Roger, on the ads and I, too, try to avoid them but there was such a crowd for the film that we had to get there early.

Also, it's a fact that good films from Hollywood seem to come in spurts and now that we have had a good run everything that is coming looks to be trash but you still have to sit through the ghastly trailors with the same old, deep-base reverberating sound effects that makes you want to murder Cineworld Management. Mind you, I might do that anyway, because their organisation is crap! I went to see the silent movie, The Artist, the other week and they had War Horse running in the very next cinema so all I could here was 'the sound of the guns'! I might consider sending the Cineworld management to Goa!

Yes, thank you, I do feel better for getting that off my chest!