tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156016 Not so much a livejournal as an on-life-support-journal jack_ryder 2022-03-13T10:14:33Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156016:290554 2022-03-13T10:14:33Z 2022-03-13T10:14:33Z public 0 This was what I call a maintenance weekend - this one had not just a visit to the podiatrist (which is every six weeks) but a visit to the dentist as well (nothing that needs to be extracted or filled, back again in six months.) L cleaned the bathrooms and kitchens, and finally got the whipper-snipper powered up to tackle the lawn, I reduced the size of the ironing pile.<br /><br />To get me through the ironing I finished off <strong>Hit Monkey</strong> (one of the oddest Marvel series on Disney+ - tucked away on Star away from the kids) and finally watched <strong>The Cars That Ate Paris</strong> (chock-filled with Australian character actors like Bruce Spence, Chris Haywood and, of course, John Meillion.) Cars was very much on a line that leads to the Mad Max Quadrilogy with a cobbled together pioneer chic that presages the standard post apocalypse apparel of dust coats, leather straps and metal implants. It's not a great film but you sense Weir's youthful anger at a type of Australia that still exists.<br /><br />Our Saturday night film was <strong>Girlhood</strong> by Céline Sciamma (director of the wonderful Portrait of a Lady on Fire.) A study of relationships between young black girls in Paris, it has many delightful moments which only lead to an ambiguous ending<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jack_ryder&ditemid=290554" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments