The Befouled Weakly News
22 November 2009 Good morning..... It’s been a busy, busy week but we did enjoy some delightfully diverting entertainment on Tuesday evening when we ambled into Stratford to attend a showing of a film at the Falstaff International Film Festival. Now, I appreciate that it’s not too often we have an opportunity to attend an international film festival (how would we ever hear about an international film festival, let alone one on our virtual doorstep) but this festival had some personal relevance; Huw Bowen’s film Schrödinger’s Girl was being shown and we had a personal invitation from the director himself. Huw, as some of you will know, is a friend of Nick’s who embarked on a career as an independent film maker some time ago. This is, I think, his first feature film and while it’s probably not going to be coming to a cinema near you any time soon, it was nonetheless a most enjoyable and entertaining diversion. It’s about scientists in three parallel universes all of whom are working on ways to travel between these parallel universes. As you might imagine, some of these parallel-universe travellers are good, others are less good. We were hoping for the stretch limousine and red carpet treatment befitting a film premiere but, in fact, this wasn’t quite the film’s world premiere – it has also been shown at the Comic Con Film Festival in San Diego in July and at the Swansea Bay Film Festival in May/June. I know that there have also been other perhaps private screenings because a number of the audience had already seen it. We were joined for the occasion by our friend Vicky, as well as Nick and Lucy and a gaggle of similar miscreants. Pen and I were planning to make an evening out of it but in fact I was later getting home than I had anticipated. So, the aperitifs and five-course meal in a fancy restaurant had to give way to a hasty visit to the local fish and chips emporium. We inhaled our meal, sprinted to the Civic Hall and arrived there just in time to be told that they were running a bit late and the ten past eight showing would now kick off about nine o’clock. Hmmm, we could have had the five course fancy restaurant meal after all! The film is about a woman who exists in three parallel universes and, in each one she is experimenting with travel through these parallel universes. Each universe, of course, has its own distinct personality and the only quibble I have with the film was what seemed to me to be a cliché in the depiction of one of the parallel universes. One of the three universes is a totalitarian state which is filmed largely in grey. I don’t have any kind of problem with a totalitarian regime being presented as brutally and depressingly grim but I think we’re probably clever enough to work that one out without the visual clue of having everything filmed in a dull, grey tone which, as I say, I just thought was a bit clichéd. Still, it was a good film and a most enjoyable evening, in spite of the singularly uncomfortable seats and the somewhat less than precise running schedule. You can find out a bit more about the film if you like here or here. (Why two web sites? While the film was originally entitled Schrödinger’s Girl, it has now been re-titled Triple Hit largely, it seems, because no one can work out how to type “Schrödinger’s Girl” into Google). I know I’ve been including articles about how good red wine is for one’s heart for some time now. Well, imagine my delight when I spotted the following on the BBC web site:
Hmmm, not sure I can get through eight bottles of wine each week, even if I could afford it! Love to you all, Greg For the cat lovers amongst you - Cat Haiku
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