An afternoon delight

To the Duke of York's Picture House this afternoon with Lorraine and Dawn to see My Afternoons With Marguerite La Tete En Friche)with Gérard Depardieu playing a lumbering odd-job man, who strikes up a friendship (over 19 pigeons) in the square of a small French town with the 95-year-old Margueritte (her father misspelt her name on the birth certificate). She is bookish and he barely literate. But it is a relationship that transforms him. It is tremendously sentimental (and the 60 year old Depardieu's shambling character, who lives in a trailer in his mother's garden, oddly attractive to a twenty-something French babe) still an excellent film for a rainy Sunday afternoon. Lorraine and Dawn both sniffing happily by the end.

Lorraine sloped home to continue with a new set of hideous forms. I returned to my house to fly my computer game ME 109 while listening to podcasts and audiobooks before watching Match of the Day. An appalling turn of events with Chelsea being swept aside imperiously by lowly Sunderland.

Below Gérard Depardieu with Gisèle Casadesus.

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