We've been watching series one of The Hour recently, the missus and I. For some reason we missed it first time round but then watched series two, so we've been catching up. In episode three there's a part where smartarse Freddy quotes some poetry. I recognised it and later realised it was the last verse of an E E Cummings poem. It goes like this...
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands
...which is quite lovely really, especially the last line. E E Cummings wrote thousands of poems, playing about with syntax and form, wilfully disregarding punctuation and spelling. Having an art and design background he liked to think about how poems would look on the page.
I like this naughty one too...
The problem with Cummings is his stuff has turned into the kind of faux-philosophy quotes you see on fridge magnets, mouse mats, cloth bags and 'inspirational' posters, and worse the kind of thing some folk get tattooed on their inner arm. Not Cummings fault but still.
This is a picture of French actress Lizzie Brochere, who plays smartarse Freddy's wife in series two of The Hour.
And this is some jazz...
Slim's Jam
A bit high brow for a Monday morning Sa but very good
ReplyDeleteRomola Garai. Only surpassed on the 21st century actress obsession front by Christina Hendricks. On all fronts actually.
ReplyDelete2nd series of The Hour was much better than the first. It'll be a shame if they don't bring it back, which is apparently a definite possibility cos of viewing figures. 2nd series casting was great, and the scenes between Anna Chancellor and Peter Capaldi were superb.
Drew- high brow, low brow, I can do it all. After a fashion
ReplyDeleteSi- I want a Spanish Civil war spin off with the Capaldi and Chancellor characters.
The scene where he was sitting at his desk trying to control his emotions was the major scene of the series for me, even though that particular plot had seemingly nothing to do with the rest of the series.
ReplyDeleteOh god a series with just those two would be superb. The rest of the cast is great, but those two are head and shoulders above. Scarily so.
Not enough Lizzie Brochere for my liking
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