Off to the film festival again this weekend. Another action packed weekend, with a trip to the ballet included on Friday evening.
Today was fun and maybe a touch lighter weight? We went to see ‘Marley”, obviously about Bob. Sara loved it as Bob was a hero of hers from her youth. It was an interesting film with input from numerous people who knew him well and were close to his life. The music was good which goes without saying I suppose. The story was enlightening and well worth the time and trouble.
On Saturday we went to a more serious film-Bernadette: A Political Journey. It was very interesting to watch a film about an incredible period of history, which is still in progress now and for which one has a personal recollection and social meaning. The drive of a woman, and others, who had so much drive because it was so important to them. The other overtones are of the issues being the same as elsewhere and current-history repeating and all that.
A new film asks ‘where is Bernadette Devlin?’
Notes on a Political Journey, which has been shortlisted for the Grierson award, revisits the life of an extraordinary and uncompromising woman
She survived an assassination attempt, but Bernadette Devlin is best remembered as the 21-year-old Irish republican from Ulster who, in 1972, strode across the floor of the House of Commons to punch Reginald Maudling, home secretary of the Conservative government. His grave mistake had been to suggest that the British army had fired only in self-defence on Bloody Sunday when they shot dead 13 civil rights protesters.
