Friday Movies:
And When Did You Last See Your Father?
This is not a shot from the film. Jim Broadbent is telling us how proud his character is of his son, played here by Matthew Beard. That’s something that Arthur Morrison couldn’t quite manage whenever Blake Morrison was in the vicinity.
I loved this film — but then Blake Morrison (whose story this is) is only two years younger than I am. My own father was a sweetheart who was either working, golfing, or napping. (I do believe that eating was a form of napping for him.) But I was terrified of dads like Arthur. Come to think of it, my mother had more than a little Arthur in her.