British Films

In my very first post I described the three books that I am reading to mentally prepare for my year in London.  Though I am still chugging away at the two denser books, I have begun augmenting my escapism with British themed movies.

Love Actually (2003)
Love Actually is one of my all time favorite movies.  It follows 5 interlocking storylines about love at christmas time.  It features Hugh Grant as an especially yummy prime minister.  If only the prime minister was A. This young, B. This good looking, and C. single (and not sleezy and oozing politician).  I wonder if I will get to meet the Prime Minister.


Notting Hill (1999)
Because he was so good in Love Actually, I decided to stick with the Hugh Grant theme by continuing my escapiastic tour with Notting Hill.  In this film, Hugh Grant owns a travel book shop, and falls in love with an American movie star.  Wonderful.

Brideshed Revisited (2008)

Brideshed revisited is a rather serious, and kind of haunting story about Captain Charles Ryder, a captain in the British Army during WW2 and artist who is stationed at Brideshed Castel, once the family home of his college friend/(lover?), Sebastian Flyte.  The movie follows his recollection of the time he spent at Brideshed, and with both Sebastian and his sister Julia, with whom he ultimate falls in love.  Its a good movie, and also a book.  Read it.  Watch it.  Love it.