arty farty

Me and Karen came over all arty farty recently and took advantage of the Times offer of free tickets to the London Film Festival. We went to see a Romanian film called The Death of Mr Lazarescu by a director caller Piui (possibly spelt differently!) who was there to introduce the showing. It's an awfully good, and very moving, film about an old guy who gets ill, and the absolute failure of the national health system. It started off sad, and got gradually sadder for over two hours..then it ended, and nobody knew quite what to say apart from, possibly, thank goodness for the NHS! Definitely a recommended film, but not if you're in the mood for light entertainment.
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