I had no expectations of the film Margaret, knowing nothing about the story-line or characters beforehand. I remembered some time into it that Anna Paquin had received plaudits for her performance at Sundance. And rightly so. It is a tour de force. She plays seventeen year old Lisa who is in every scene. Your response to her determines whether you … [Read more...] about To A Young Child
Archives for June 2012
Mr Secretary
Bring Up The Bodies, the second volume of Hilary Mantel's vivid imagining of Thomas Cromwell's life lives up to high expectations. It follows on seamlessly from her first, Booker Prize winning effort, Wolf Hall. Hilary likes to draw her titles from things that happen late in the story. In the first we left Thomas and Henry on the last page … [Read more...] about Mr Secretary