First of all hello here from Geneva – we are enjoying a fine autumnal evening with the temperature around 10 Celcius.
The small intimate cinema decked out almost entirely in Moulin Rouge red promised many adult treats and with former X-files investigator David Duckovy and girl next door Julia Roberts our curisity was aroused and we parted with SFR 10 (EUR 7.50) and in we went.
But as all older people know all that gliters is not gold and we were treated to 90 minutes of navel staring introspection of the group of thrity and fortysomething characters. I mean we go to the cinema for some escapisim and if we wnated this sort of thing it would work out cheaper to stay at home and sit in front of the mirror for a bit. It is a sad reflection of the current state of our generation and I hope future historians will not see this as a barometer of our times. You know the thing, no children, expensive suits and spending all of one's waking hours analysing and not doing. Some bright new exective is going to come in one morning ask what all of these people do and fire the lot of them. Perhaps it's the new roles of men and women that is causing all these problems or maybe people are trying to fill time now that everything is automated. It certainly put us off hosting a party anyway. Sorry I should have said there is no nudity and hardly any sex which is where the scriptwriters got our generation wrong as we are always at it having no time for new concepts such as designer drugs and now that football has become expensive and we are too old to play we still find time on Saturday afternoons for sport now that the supermarkets are open 24 hours a day.
The plot is one of those Hollywood insider stories but as I say it really is a framework for some wry social comment. It centres around an actor's struggle to find work and we meet a couple of writers who provide the introspection and someone who dresses up as Adolf Hitler for some reason we never really descover. Presumably becuase he couldn't understand the young fashions and did feel up to buying his first cardigan.
It contains an Internet relationship and a bizarre suicide but really cannot be recommended for those of a similar age bracket to the cast as you will probably end up repeating the character's introspection.