GEISHA

To celebrate the arrival of spring, French cinemas have something called ‘le printemps du cinema’ where for three days around the spring equinox, you can go to see any film, at any time, in any cinema for a ridiculously small amount of money (€3.50). So, the other day, off we went to see ‘Memories of a Geisha’. Although I’ve read the book, I wasn’t sure whether I would enjoy its conversion into film but I’m happy to say, visually, it is a spectacularly beautiful film, subtle and graceful and full of symbolism and colour. And it’s a good job the seats are so comfy as, at 2 hours 25 minutes, it’s a long film. How I wish we had 'springtime cinema' and comfy seats in England!

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