Cinema Joy

Yes - the Nureyev Don Qixote was pretty impressive really. Excellent set design and choreography and costumes etc and the dance really was effortlessly athletic and so on. I am a little puzzled about why Don Quixote was ever chosen as the subject for the ballet in the first place though - the plot (insofar as any ballet has a complex plot at all) was only tangentially connected to the original story, and could have been just as connected to a dozen other stories. I don't know what the re-orchestration actually involved but to my mind there were some odd choices that left certain scenes a little isolated by silence between particular musical sections.

Otherwise, we went with You Hurt My Feelings which was pretty much what I was hoping. Very much in the tradition of Woody Allen movies: the same milieu and a lot of vaguely similar dialogue and humour - although it was a fairly low-key humour overall, and definitely not a laugh out loud comedy. Well observed characters and some realistic exploration of territory around support and truth and what should and shouldn't be expressed in relationships. It prompted some meaningful discussion afterwards - which is exactly what I am looking for with this kind of film. Not a standout movie by any definition, but it certainly did what it was aiming to do.