Word: kireishi
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Dates: during 2006-2006
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...from feeling the slightest bit sorry for him as illness chips away at - but never conquers - his bonhomie. It just sort of happens to him, and Venus just sort of sees him through it, without pitying him - or leaving us awash in tears either. The script by Hanif Kireishi is witty without being self-consciously so, and Roger Michell's direction has a nice awareness of middle-class London, clinging to its dignity but just a little bit tatty around the edges. You leave the movie hoping against hope that you will be able to manage a similar ending - tart...
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