Sunday Summer

So so warm in February!

Look at that texture in the upper storey!

Nothing says Springtime like laundry.

Wow. Sunday here was superb. After ten days of sewing, and with a break in the relentless clouds and rain, I went for a walk and the ugly selfie is just to prove how lovely and warm it was. It was 16° yesterday! 16° in February and I walked home from Value Village (where I got three fabulous hats to use as wig bases) in a t-hirt.

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Saturday night I watched The Hundred Foot Journey because it was in the DVD kiosk in the 711 across the street. It's like I have ADHD when I try and watch a film or television; I get bored and am always getting up to do something—anything to move around. But the endless sewing involved with my paper costumes is fun to do whilst watching something and the film really moved me. How could it not? It has an astoundingly handsome Indian lead actor, Bangra music, Om Puri, Helen Mirren and it's set in France. Plus, the actress playing the ingenue was divine.

The film is about food and in some scenes, I wept at the reverence for food of genuine foodies—not the attention loving personality cooks that waste cathode rays. It is very effectively conveyed in this film and so, at the end, I was terribly happy to see that it was directed by Lasse Hallström. From the start, when Warren first proposed turning Knock Knock into a screenplay, he was my dream choice for a director were we making a feature film. He has such a gentle human feeling touch.

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Sunday, I watched Richard Linkletter's Boyhood. It is definitely a movie I will watch again. I absolutely loved it and I believe it will endure as a landmark film. It's magnificence is a tribute to the vision and patience of Mr. Linkletter and his cast. Ethan Hawke is so comfortably natural, as is Patricia Arquette, but it is the kids that really move me. Everyone and everything feels so natural and honest.