In this week’s lecture, scenes from Scott Ruo’s ‘Four Images’, Brian Hill’s ‘Drinking for England’ and Chantal Akerman’s ‘D’Est’ were screened.  Choose one of these, and consider, in a single paragraph, what might have intrigued, interested, displeased or repelled you.

I found Brian Hill’s ‘Drinking for England’ rather amusing, the poetic rhythm of the rhyming couplets used throughout not only extremely clever, but also applicable to the documentary’s substance on drinking, and gave the film quite an ‘intoxicated’ feel.  The film, not only in the title, but in the cinematography, was incredibly English, and I absolutely loved the look of the British bars, characters, accents, and humour.  Despite all this, the film’s subject matter is incredibly serious, and is a film I would like to watch in full soon.