It’s the eleventy billionth viewing in our house, and the comic detail and silly sight gags in this lovely tale of immigrant acceptance keep on delighting. The back half of the taxidermied animals in Nicole Kidman’s lab. “The English have 107 different ways to talk about rain.” Mrs Bird’s knees. The tea train. “My heart, she took a little longer to arrive” - a perfect line about homesickness. The beige car: “It’s a karma-neutral colour.”
Also, I want Sally Hawkins’ wardrobe.
I want….
….to know how and when that food was prepared because absolutely no party labour was going down in the kitchen.
Wild to me that the winter the racist 1981 Springbok Tour was sweeping Aotearoa, was the same winter we young girls were busily obsessed with Diana Spencer’s wedding. It was such a confusing time for suburban families, especially if you didn’t grow up in an activist household and you had parents who thought sport and human rights could exist separately. I’m forever grateful to those who donned helmets and got out there with the bags of flour and the handmade…
