Enchanted April

I don't go to many films that the Film Society put on, but I did want to see this one. The book was written by Elizabeth von Armin, who also wrote Elizabeth and her German Garden, which I heard on the radio years ago and fell in love with. The story is that a group of four women hire an Italian castle for the month of April, shortly after the First World War, to get away from their unsatisfactory lives, and they are all changed for the better by the experience.
The film was beautifully shot - there's a scene where one of the women is in the garden at night in a silk dressing gown that perfectly blends in with the shadows of the vegetation - and it really was one of those uplifting, feel-good films. Chatting afterwards, quite a few of us felt like heading off for a month in sun-drenched Italy!
The Parish Hall was packed - they had to bring out extra chairs.

In the announcements before the film started, Jo Eliot mentioned that the Two Stubborn Women, Jo Lord and Annie Day, will be jetting off to compete in the Marathon des Sables on 1st April, and on the 26th February they will be fund-raising by putting a film on at Booth Books' new little cinema. It only seats 45, so tickets are limited. The film is Run Fatboy Run, with Simon Pegg, and the price of £10 includes food and a glass of wine. They are raising money for the North Wier Trust and Macmillan Nurses. If there are any tickets left, they'll be available from the Wholefood Shop.