Death at a Funeral..

[fajrdrako]

Yesterday I watched Death at a Funeral with maaseru and josanpq. We all laughed out loud - a lot. It's written rather like a stage farce: things go askew in the beginning and then one thing builds on another until chaos ensues - corpses to get rid of, suicides pending, and Uncle Alfy screaming on the toilet. And amidst all the craziness, it manages to have a rather good moral stance as well, beautiful delivered by Matthew Macfadyen.

And Alan Tudyk's performance had me in stitches.

The story? Father has died. The family (and friends) reunite at the funeral, held at the elegant, respectable family home. There's sibling rivalry between the sons (Robert being a successful novelist, Daniel an unsuccesful one). One attendee has brought a bottle of highly-potent hallucinogenic tablets in a vallium bottle, which keeps falling into the wrong hands. And then... Father's hitherto-unknown gay lover tries to blackmail the family. And they have to do something about it.

Comments

Re: Peter in his heyday

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Yup. It breaks my heart that the BBC seems to have abdicated any cultural responsibility. Everything is measured by viewing figures, so pandering to the lowest common denominator is the direction in which broadcasting has gone… hence all these 'reality' shows and talent shows and gambling/game shows.