"Acorns don't cry. You know as well as I&quot

First properly duff film of the week today; nothing outstandingly bad, just not good; Gulabi Talkies is the decade-plus-old tale of a film-loving midwife driven out of her home for no immediately readily identifiable reason. Though a different religion to most of the people she speaks to this appears to have been the case for some time. Side-stories of fishermen being ripped off or oppressed in some nebulous way either by their own boat-master or another similar but potential rival boat-master and a fellow village-woman attempting to run away from the oppression experienced from her mother-in-law and what must have been her husband were equally unengaging and even mildly repellent in places.

Considerably better was Lars von Trier's Antichrist, evidently regarded as a coup to have secured as a late-addition screening even though it's out on normal release at the end of next month. Nice and well-shot opening sequence in slo-mo giving way to slightly less well-shot (despite the fawning exhibited towards the cinematographer, present for Q&A - it was largely shot on RED cameras with a couple of Lensbaby sequences) stuff featuring almost no-one else apart from Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a couple with a number of issues to attempt to work through. Not particularly an ideal date movie but certainly not unwatchable, though it'll be interesting to see how far the BBFC have come when it comes to certification and (potentially) cutting before proper release. One thing which popped up from the questions was that the film had a misogyny consultant.

Prior to films was the completion of one of the few outstanding tasks on the nebulous list of Things To Be Done. Despite my faint mistrust of all walls in the flat one of them now has the television attached to it by means of a flexible bracket thing, which I shall be testing carefully every now and then for the next couple of weeks just to check that it doesn't look like it's going to expensively part company with the wall and cause expensive things to collapse into expensive heaps. A few more tasks left for later in the week but also more films, so they should balance out.