sovay: (Sydney Carton)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2022-04-14 04:24 am

I'm a free-floating body with your skin slipping off me

I am almost confident that the brief clip of Kathleen Harrison that leads off Lone Scherfig's Their Finest (2016) has to come from A Call for Arms! (1940), since the latter was a propaganda short aimed at women released in the right year by the Ministry of Information, but I wouldn't mind verification from anyone in a country where BFI Player actually works. Would it have killed the end credits to identify the footage? People care about these things who aren't even me. In other news, I had wanted to see the movie for the last five years, I appreciate it manifesting on one of the free channels, I enjoyed it very much, I think I am running entirely out of tolerance for advertising. This one crashed at least three delicate emotional moments with ad breaks; it was worse than a voiceover in an Anthony Mann noir. At least if I read the better-titled novel, I can only be interrupted by the cat.

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