Keep Calm and Carry On

Another film I spent my student loan on. I love anything that will appear typically stiff upper lipped English, and based around WWII. I am a granny trapped in a young body. The casting for this is a fantastic advert for British actors to not straight away head across the pond and change their accent to  a twang heard in California rather than Cambridge. I'm not normally a huge Colin Firth fan, but I do back down as he is amazing in this and thoroughly deserves any nominations he receives. Helena Bonham Carter is fantastic as usual, and despite seeing her last murdering Dobby, I loved her gentle yet strong portrayal of  the late Queen Mother. Princess Margaret was also the cherry on the cake, as it was star in the making Ramona Marquez  playing the young Royal, who as I have mentioned previously love in Outnumbered.

The film itself is the ultimate in feel good films, without being a musical. The story of confidence being built after a lifetime of crippling insecurity, the support of loved ones, friendship that forms through class boundaries. The film ends with the break of Britain and Germany declaring war, yet there is an air of optimism and success at the end of the film, indicating the 'Keep Calm and Carry On' attitude that got the country through the war.

All in all, I've found a new favourite film.

I have to see..

This looks amazing. Swan Lake is a must see ballet for me after reading the story when I was little. I've always loved the idea of the principal dancer having to multi-role between the  gentle Odette (white swan) and the more fiery Odile (black swan) as normally a principal ballerina will only take on one role in other ballets. Also, ballet is seen as a very delicate, timid  form of dance and many who have never studied it can seem to sit back and see it as a bit 'airy fairy' and feeble. This film looks to show the very opposite, which is why I'm itching to see it. Also, I much prefer films that play with your mind as opposed to explicit gore.