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KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING
(1997)
CertificationPG
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Would-be poet Gordon Comstock (Richard E Grant in typically manic form), is desperate to throw off the decidedly un-bohemian trappings of success. So, passing up promotion and a pay rise at the advertising agency where he works, he decides instead to jack it all in and starve in a garret in pursuit of his art. Soon realising that his new-found poverty is not going to win him literary acclaim, Gordon is forced to take a job in a bookshop, where his time is divided between half-heartedly pursuing
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LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA
(2007)
Certification15
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's dark, brooding, atmospheric, humid, immense novel finally, and inevitably, gets a big screen adaptation and, as with that other great South American period epic ‘House of Ghosts', the overwhelming feeling is…why? Don't get me wrong, this is still a gloriously visualised tale of love and obsession through the ages, but it would take a true genius to direct the novel of a true genius. If you've not read the book then there's much to enjoy, if you have…hold tight to your me
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