Friends and Families in Film
There’s so much in the world to be sad and worried about at the moment, I have been watching some films which are a bit escapist. Mostly offbeat but all giving me a bit of hope for humanity in their different ways. Pretty Red Dress A warm funny drama stuffed full of music, all about a family given a proper shake up by a red dress. Travis (Natey Jones) is just out of prison, Candice (Alexandra Burke) is trying to get her big break as Tina Turner in a West End show, and Kenisha their daughter is having loads of trouble at school. When Travis buys the red dress, it changes things for everyone in the family as they all work out they are all a bit 'off key' in their own ways Very sweet but with a defiant core and a lovely sense of a proper family. Days of the Bagnold Summer Apparently this is an adaptation of a graphic novel so another one to add to the list! Directed by Simon Bird, this is the story of a single mum (Monica Dolan) a...