A week or so ago Lucy & I headed to Manly cinema to watch 'Notes on a Scandal' - it was the first time in an age that we'd had the opportunity to catch a movie (both working longer hours so miss 7pm showings & 9.30pm showings are just too late). Whilst the cinema itself was very average (extremely uncomfortable seats), the movie itself was very good.... superb performances from Judi Dench (a cynical, veteran schoolteacher with lesbian tendencies) & Cate Blanchett (a younger teacher who is recruited to the art faculty). I won't give too much away but won't harm to say that young Cate is a bit careless & old Judi is only too eager to scheme away in her devious way to exploit the situation. Perhaps a bit slow moving, but amazing the lengths that some people will go to in life to 'twist things' their way. We had a cheeky pizza on the way home at the nearby pizza shop - wood chip on the walls, tiny tables - felt like something from a 70s movie (a bad one at that) - but great pizza & beer!
After not visiting the cinema for weeks, we managed to make it twice in one week by heading to Collaroy cinema (our favourite - with it's art deco style, old school seats & chandeliers in the theatre!) to watch Pan's Labyrinth.... like a number of people I think the 3 Oscar wins influenced us a little. This movie could be summed up as 'weird & wonderful'... gruesome in parts, and the depravity which some people have in the name of a cause is truly astonishing (you wouldn't want to be married to the lead male character). A 12 yr old girl copes with the repression & cruelty of her step-father in Franco's Spain by retreating into her fantasy world - with a twist in it's tail....a recommended watch.
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