R's rue

I went to "The Showroom" this afternoon to watch "The Fabelmans". I had been looking forward to seeing this film ever since I heard Steven Spielberg talking about it on BBC Radio 4. You probably know that it is semi-autobiographical, by implication exploring Spielberg's childhood and how he got into making films. Representing Spielberg's younger self - Sammy Fabelman is played by Gabriel LaBelle who seemed very well cast. Physically, you could imagine him growing up to be Spielberg's doppelganger. His mother Mitzi is played by Michelle Williams and his father Burt by Paul Dano. Superficially, it is a happy marriage but something is missing and in a revelatory moment while editing the film footage  of a family camping trip, Sammy sees what is wrong. With background music by John Williams, the entire film has a beautiful and carefully considered look about it. There's something of The American Dream there - the ease and comfort of post-war suburban...

 Guide  Where My feet land My heart beats And let  My soul Not hastily retreat Pray for me my precious friends.   from R's rue https://ift.tt/U2N1JLM

  Roger found a packet of panini in the footwell of the car. It had fallen out of the shopping bag unnoticed and the resulting hysteria from Dorothy who shouldered her way out of her cage in the back seat like a fat faced drug raiding policeman in order to grab one out of Mary’s mouth would have  caused a car wreck if we weren’t stuck in the workman’s traffic lights just outside the village. The bickering over the crumbs lasted at least 25 minutes so I had a headache brewing when I finally got to the dentists in Llandudno. After my appointment we all had a walk along the Promenade to blow away the cobwebs and I turned listening to Spotify on my phone as the waves flung spray horizontally into our faces.  We sat down in a beach shelter as Max Richter’s On The Nature Of Daylight was playing.  It’s a deeply melancholy and rather beautiful piece of music  And as I listened the dogs crammed in closer, on either side of me in an effort to keep warm. The pre...