don't mention the war.

[ewein2412]

collected sara from music camp today... It is here, and it is LOVELY, but it looks even more like a respectable Officers' POW Camp in real life than it does in the pictures (the kids sleep 12 to a suite, 3 alcoves with 2 bunkbeds in each and an aisle between them about a metre wide). When I arrived the whole place was filled with the incredible sound of a piano quartet playing something GORGEOUS and classical--don't know what, pretty sure it wasn't Mendelssohn, but it reminded me SO MUCH of the scene in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp where Candy goes to visit Theo in the prison camp, and the German officers are all listening to Mendelssohn, and Theo won't speak to him, that I got ALL CHOKED UP and had to blink back tears as I chatted to Sara's wind band conductor.

Fortunately the pianists then switched to "Give My Regards to Broadway" and Sara kicked me. "SHUT UP ABOUT COLONEL BLIMP, MUMMY."

honestly.

Comments

[zalena.livejournal.com]

I recently saw Col. Blimp and this was a very affecting moment. What a strange film. Though it's probably Mrs. Miniver that gets me every time.

[ewein2412]

yes, we like that one too. ridiculously, though, one of my made-up characters is a fan of Col. Blimp and it results in more of an emotional investment for me.

It is a strange film! PLOT EVERYWHERE and almost impossible to summarize.

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

Which is just another reminder that I have been planning to watch Colonel Blimp for months.