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Holly (2006)
Like most films about Cambodia, at times a very difficult and depressing watch.

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For once I think the book was even more powerful than the movie, which I did enjoy.

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I’m here only on Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays. That’s why I’m here now.

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Had seen this when it was last being shown, and thrilled that it’s getting an encore. An absolute revelation of a play.

This is great. I’ve missed such Chekhov-type stuff. Also reminded me a bit of the most recent Farhadi film. A really unusual film.

Not the best but I haven't seen it in a long time. Surprised it's 7.1 on imdb

Didn’t make me think of Chekhov.

Loved this movie. Saw it twice.

I'll be watching it next week

Yay! I’m recommending it to everyone I know.

I’m confused. I know she was the single performer on stage & fabulous reviews.

So now it’s being filmed?

Watching tonight with Hownos.

Right now I'm watching Autumn Sonata. Ingrid's just... perfect. So far this has to be a top 5 performance for me. She is a philosopher's stone in human form here.

Watching it for Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.

I really enjoyed it too.

I feel like I don’t even have the words, or the space here, to describe how incredible this production is. It is one of the best plays I have seen in my life (and it’s kind of funny because I don’t even like theatre all that much, compared to my family, obsessed with theatre, classical Russian productions, all that). It is utterly unique and even though I personally often have very mixed feelings on the subject matter and the ‘message’, it floored me.

Everyman cinemas (another highlight of my London life in the last five years; it really is a very different way of doing cinema) run a National Theatre Live series of plays. It’s a film of a live performance of the original production, but sleekly, professionally done (better than the stuff BBC and Channel 4 put out nowadays, for sure).

It makes me think of all those concert films I grew up watching with Barbra Streisand etc. These NT:L plays are spectacularly filmed, you forget that you’re not watching the play live. In my experience, you get the best of both worlds. None of the noise and shuffling and coughing (I’m very sensitive to noise; I’m well aware it’s a ‘me’ problem), but at the same time, the full force of the performance and the visuals and the much better sound.

I thought the National Theatre production of Good with David Tennant was also outstanding, I raved about it only marginally less than I’ve raved about Prima Facie since I first saw it.

Anyway: Prima Facie is a masterpiece. It is absolutely spectacular. It’s being performed now all over the place, including Serbia (that one surprised me!). It’s also really multi-faceted and you can interpret it as one barrister’s professional deformation character study as much as anything else.

I’d definitely check it out, even on YouTube or whenever you can get your hands on a performance in some shape or form. Or who knows, it might eventually come to the States, though I haven’t seen anything about that anywhere.