Married Life

Today I went out to the supermarket get my food shopping for the week.

This afternoon I went out to the Cineworld cinema to see another Film Festival film. Today it was a film called Married Life, directed by Ira Sachs and based on a 1952 novel by John Bingham. The film is set in the USA in 1949 and tells the story of Harry (played by Chris Cooper) who is married to Pat (Patricia Clarkson). However he wants to leave her for his girlfriend, Kay (Rachel McAdams). Harry confides in his best friend Richard (Pierce Brosnan), who is also interested in Kay. Richard advises Harry not to hurt Pat's feelings. However, as Richard attempts to win Kay's affections behind Harry's back, Harry decides the best way to avoid hurting Pat's feelings is a nice quick murder. The film veers between relationship drama, film noir and dark comedy. It is always very entertaining, and very well-acted. The period design is well done.

My next Film Festival film is on Tuesday and it's the Surprise Movie, so that should be interesting and the following day I'll be seeing Ray Harryhausen. He's going to be signing books, so I'm going to see if I can get one and get his autograph. I've got a few signed books now and hopefully I should be getting a few more soon with the book festival.