Thursday 16 July 2020

About Time (2013 Richard Curtis & scr)

I always enjoy this enormously because of the actors and the acting and the writing, though it's slightly derivative of both Groundhog Day and other Curtis films. You can in fact find flaws. How do you return from the past? Why are none of the women told? If you can take your sister back, why not take anyone? Where's your past self when you suddenly turn up? Nighy's travels are largely concerned with him reading? Before the final table tennis match, why does the camera bother to track upstairs? All the time spent in the past would shorten your 'natural' life?

It's quite sexist, really, and utter nonsense, so it's a good job it's so funny and its heart is in the right place.

Domhnall Gleason's one to watch - he's co-starring in Frank of Ireland with brother Brian, who wrote it with him, on Channel 4 this year.

With Bill Nighy, Rachel McAdams, Lydia Wilson, Lindsay Duncan, Richard Cordery (a beautiful performance from a versatile actor), Joshua McGuire, Tom Hollander, Margot Robbie, Will Merrick, Vanessa Kirby, Tom Hughes.

Photographed by John Guleserian, edited by Mark Day.


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