My second parkrun today at West Park, Long Eaton and the first
one to be officially recognised by the authorities. Cherry popped. Again it is
in the accompaniment of MD on a much more dog friendly course. L heads off to Pilates
to celebrate or whatever they do at these things.
We do a film tonight, Gemma Bovery, at Broadway where we eat
and I have to choose between three Nottingham Brewery Beers - Legend, Dolphin
1530AD and Broadway Reel. Which I would swear are all actually the same beer.
The ex-pat couple are Gemma (Gemma Arterton) and her
crushingly dull husband Charlie (Jason Flemyng). As the couple accustom
themselves to village life and learn French very well, Martin becomes obsessed
with the beautiful but bored Gemma. Hardly surprising really when she spends most
of the first half of the film orgasmically sniffing bread in his bakery.
The film itself is based on a graphic novel by Posy Simmonds who
also produced Tamara Drewe which you may recall also starred Gemma Arteton and
reworked another piece of famous literature in ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’.
Martin soon starts to believe that her life is mirroring that
of the fictional Bovary particularly when he catches Gemma flirting with Hervé
(Niels Schneider), a young student who should be revising for his law degree but
(understandably) would rather spends time working on his English. He is frequently
seen naked helping Gemma relive her boredom although she manages to remain
clothed the whole time (must be a contract thing).
Martin assumes this will all end badly for Gemma just as the
book does and he tries to intervene in matters but his help only further complicates
her love life as does the arrival of her ex Patrick (Mel Raido).
It is a pleasantly mixed language (English/French) affair with
about 80% in French and subtitled. Only occasionally does it descend into cheesy
chick flick territory such as when Gemma gets stung by a bee and asks her
favourite baker to open her shirt and suck the poison out.
The ending is really quite clever and shot from several
angles/points of view, the rest of the film less so but pleasant enough.
The beer choice up in the Borlase afterwards where Lincoln
Green’s Buttermuch and Tuck are both on is much butter although not great race
prep for my event tomorrow.
(Saturday 22nd August)
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