Excellent film

Rating: 8/10 (4 February 2015)

Well shot, quirky, funny, unusual. I'm going to find it hard to cover ten lines as this is my fifth review of the night (I love doing this even though no one might actually read it). It's bedtime.
Visually it's an intriguing film. The dialogue is unusual. The characters are eccentric and endearing. Ralph Fiennes is on form. During a train journey -and I assume it's scripted- he breaks character for a second to utter an expletive. Hilarious. Cartoonish and surreal, in a good way. Is that ten lines yet? It seems not. Set in a different era but told in the present day the film alludes to a sumptuous, ordered, bygone time which probably didn't exist but is nevertheless appealing and comforting, a bit like listening to your grandparents talking about the old days - you can almost smell it but you'll never experience it. My grandmother actually worked as a servant in a hotel. How much subliminal stuff is going on here? OK. It's bedtime. Thank you for reading.