Film: Palestine 36
Tonight , I was supposed to be on another Meetup , back with The Hideout for Keeper , directed by Osgood Perkins - details TBA, but it was to be somewhere around Leicester Square . Except then the organiser cancelled due to personal issues.. tarnation! So I said I'd still go to a film.. the one I was planning to go to this coming Monday. W hat came up was Palestine 36 , a recreation of the events of 1936 in that part of the world, with Palestinian villages revolting against British colonial rule - all while the British are planning their typical pursuit of redrawing maps. They also face the problem of increased Jewish immigration to the region. Jeremy Irons plays the British High Commissioner , Liam Cunningham is Tegart , the counter-terrorism expert brought in to deal with the Arab revolt . Now, when I looked up where was showing it, Flicks informed me that the closest location to me ...