Friday 29 October 2010

And finally

Almost time to leave the London Film Festival behind us for another year, but here are a couple of my favourite movies which I haven't so far bored you about. First up: Patagonia.


So far ahead of its release there are almost no images anywhere for it, this is a sort of parallel road movie: a Welsh couple are on the road in Patagonia, while a Patagonian grandmother of Welsh origins is on the road in Wales. Delightful, slow, engaging, and featuring the scrummy Matthew "The Gay One In Brothers And Sisters" Rhys, too (who, alas, doesn't take his clothes off).


Enjoy that photo because the film has less nudity than that. Although I have to say I didn't really mind.

Lastly Archipelago. I can't find a single image for this delightful new British film (not released until next March) by director Joanna Hogg whose film about "The English Middle Classes on Holiday in Tuscany", Unrelated, was one of my favourites of a couple of years back. Archipelago explores similar themes and also stars Tom Hiddleston -- who is going to be huge as a result of playing Loki in some fan-boy comic blockbuster film called Thor (he's the one on the right):


Alas, Tom doesn't take his clothes off in Archipelago (well, not so's you can see any of the good stuff), although he's playing the lover in a rumoured up-and-coming film by favourite director Terence Davies (Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea). Rumours that he plays Loki completely naked other than a set of horns appear to be confounded by the above photo. Bugger it.

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