Friday was my annual pre-Christmas chin wag, food eat and wine drink with my friend Rob.Always a good night, this one was a cracker. The added magical ingredient was a visit to Manchester's wonderful independent cinema, Cornerhouse, to see Dean Spanley.
An endearlingly loopy ensemble piece about reinarnation, grief, hungarian wine, fatherhood/sonship and dogs, Dean Spanley is the quintessential deeply moving and gently funny low budget film. The icing on the cake is Peter O'Toole's performance as the deliciously grumpy and emotionally repressed Fisk senior.
This is a near perfect Christmas film. Forget Australia, don't even think about Four Christmases, do yourself a favour, see this instead.
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Seconded. The film just keeps on coming back to me. Whenever I tell someone about it, I'm amazed at the enthusiasm that wells up as I speak. Really glad I saw it - ta.
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