Film - Emma

I’m not an Austenite as half of the world seems to be but there was nothing else on and Bill Nighy is in it. In any case, this fills the big screen with welcome colour as an antidote to the grey of The Lighthouse. Emma, the main character, a sworn singleton has nothing to do other than match-make her mates. In the era that invented layering, achieving anything other than getting dressed three times a day is no mean feat. 

Of course, the best character was played by Nighy as her father who is paranoid that everyone around him is going to get sick, I guess, after losing his wife. (Imagine if he was around today - he’d know the meaning of self-isolation). Luckily he can afford to pump up the heat in his mansion as he isn’t ‘poor’ like the character played by Miranda Hart who is poverty-stricken as anyone seems to get in this world where they all own their own property and never seem to work. The only business I see happening is renting out land to farmers.

Amusing.

6/10