My recommendation: I know that most of you will love this and I am sorry that overseas dwellers may not get BBC iPlayer, but maybe you can watch it somehow. It is just what we need to see at the moment. Charming. Dustin Hoffman was the Executive Director!
I heard about that one. Don't get the BBC iPlayer, but it will no doubt turn up somewhere else down the line.
ReplyDeleteI have a service called BritBox, I'll watch there.
DeleteExcellent! I have it on DVD
ReplyDeleteI shall start to watch it tonight ! Only recently been alerted to the delights of BBCiplayer that I can get on my ipad in bed! (Last night it was A House in Bayswater as recommended by Rachel, and prior to that I enjoyed White Crow)
ReplyDeleteI have yet to see that.
DeleteThanks for the tip.
ReplyDeleteIt began as a stage play.
ReplyDeleteI saw it some years ago when it came out. It is a lovely film.
ReplyDeleteU old softie x
ReplyDeleteJust finished watching " Quartet". What a lovely film with many famous actors. Billy Connolly was great. Thanks for the recommendation. Any other film suggestions ( iplayer) gratefully received!
ReplyDeleteYes, Connolly was good. I didn't like his stand-up, but he is a better actor.
DeleteWas a better actor.
DeleteDarling Tom,
ReplyDeleteWe remember seeing this film many moons ago after having 'bought' it. Indeed, we associate it with 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' which we recall watching at about the same time.
We enjoyed both films, filled with 'luvvies' from the British stage and cinema screen but, try as we might, especially as the cast includes our all time favourite Maggie Smith, we did not love them.
Perhaps we felt that the 'luvvies' were trying a little too hard to outperform each other, vying for the position as the most loved of the 'luvvies' or perhaps they did not resonate with the mood of that particular moment of watching them.
And, now the mood is different, we may well try them again. For, undoubtedly, a feel good factor is worth its weight in gold these days and they have that in abundance.
Yes, but the whole premise of it was to do with all those old, spent egos confined together in one small space. Luvvies playing luvvies. Maybe I am not feeling very demanding right now. Maybe I am easily pleased at the moment.
DeleteI've been fortunate enough to have already seen it. -can't remember on what streaming service, however. -lovely film.
ReplyDeleteI watched 'The Glass Mountain' tonight. Music by Nino Rota. Not the film I remember from childhood though. I wonder what that was.
ReplyDeleteIt is a lovely film and in a way how all care homes should be for the elderly. There is something rather funny how famous 'old actors' were gathered together, a closure on acting careers I wonder?
ReplyDeleteI saw it when it came out, absolutely charming!
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