See Looking for Eric

When we went to the theatre-that-doubled-as-a-cinema-sometimes in Peterborough, my mum used to count the other patrons and be worried if there weren't very many. I realise that this is the way one should approach venues with rickety funding, but frankly my response to a remotely full cinema is GO HOME AND STOP BREATHING NEAR ME. Yesterday I went to see Sunshine Cleaning, which I liked ( spoiler )

, and a group of people came and sat very near me, then their friend showed up LATE and sat right next to me, which I always hate when it is not very close to capacity because I think it looks like I've tried to glom onto their group by sitting near them.

A few weeks ago I saw Flame and Citron and Katyn, both very involving films about resistance in the second world war. Flame and Citron are two people in the Danish resistance ( spoiler )

. Katyn is set in Poland, and confused me because I am not used to having two lots of baddies in WW2 films, and they had Nazis and Soviets. ( Spoiler. )

So when I went to see irrtum I made her come and see Bandslam as something that was not going to end quite so harrowingly. ( Spoiler. )

I did not warm to any of the characters and the music they performed was really dull. The Dukes are now showing films that are slightly more cheerful (before next week, which seems to mark the start of a "very very violent" season), and I saw The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, which mostly I did not see the point of. It was fine, and funny in places, and I didn't mind the places where they tried to be moving too much, and the acting was not awful, but it was mostly... fine. However, earlier this week I saw Looking for Eric, which I nearly didn't because I don't know anything about football, and it was BRILLIANT. Lovely funny interesting film about modern masculinities, and power and class, and male friendship and support.