The movies

My dear Friends
Despite the sunny weather (although there's a bitterly cold wind today) I have been getting some recreation by going to the movies. There's a very good cinema in Cambridge called The Arts Picturehouse, which shows some modern, if esoteric films. Shutter Island was a grim movie about an asylum on the island, which a police lieutenant goes to investigate and ends up as a patient in the institution.

Nightwatching was a much more gentle film about Rembrandt and his making of his famous painting The Night Watch, the original of which I have seen in the Ryks Museum in Amsterdam.

A Father and his children was about a filmaker whose operation goes bust; he commits suicide as a result and his family are left to pick up the pieces from his business. I am Love is a haunting Italian movie about a dynasty which has its tragedies, but the film is made with a great deal of sensitivity and creativity.

But I drew the line at Dogtooth, a really peculiar Greek film about a family (incestuous amongst other things) which doesn't leave their family home.

I generally go to all those movies with my friend James, who enjoys them as much as I do.

Happy watching
Shalom from
Sister Gila