High Hopes

I buy the Mike Leigh box set at the BFI shop at the NFT. It’s sixty quid: I could probably find it cheaper online but the great man has signed this one and sentimentally I slide over the card. (Incidentally, lots of Japanese people in the BFI shop - I remember hearing how film-friendly the Japanese are. Make a note to subtitle the film and build a Japanese version of this site). At home I watch High Hopes, especially for the cemetery scene when Phil Daniels and Ruth Sheen go up to Highgate and pay their respects to Karl Marx. The lovely touch is the group of Chinese tourists who spill into the shot; the actors barely notice them and carry on with the scene.

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