Sydney Film Festival

Just enjoyed a long weekend, courtesy of the Queen’s Birthday. God Bless you, Ma’am. Curiously, the colonies generally seem to get a day off for it yet the Mother Country goes without.

The main thing has been the arrival of Dorothy and Adrian, my aunt and uncle, for a 2-week visit. It’s great to have them here after they were so generous to us in New Zealand. So, what do you do when relatives come all the way to Sydney for a visit? Movies, of course. Well, the Sydney Film Festival is on and the free screening at the AGNSW was not to be missed, so they can do the tourist stuff some other time.

For the record, the films we saw were:

Far Side of The Moon – Arty Robert LePage movie about space exploration, among other things. Funny, touching, and some wonderful visual invention.

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers – Flawed but interesting biopic with a great cast.

The Wages of Fear – Classic 1953 French movie, nailbiting and quite brilliant. Endlessly ripped off.

Then, of course, there was the…the…football….but I can’t talk about it. It’s just too soon. Sob.