THE TENDER BAR

 

 

 I didn't quite enjoy Clooney as a director until this morning when I watched The Tender Bar while breakfasting French toasts. The French toasts were meh - I keep on trying - but the movie was good. Naturally, I enjoy most films about writers, especially when inspired in real life, but The Tender Bar was good; Not fireworks-and-gasps good but the gentle oh-my-god-I-am-every-character-but-the-coolest good; the I-can-make-it good.
The biggest surprise? Ben Affleck. It is the second time in a week I realise what a good actor this man is.

Without giving too much away, I rooted for every character but one and believed them all. And my God, Affleck played my actual uncle C or the way I saw him growing up by his side. Shame I wasn't a boy, so C could have taught me The Male Sciences, but I did have my dad, who told me to read a whole world of books and adored my mum. I guess that's why my early life wouldn't have made a compelling movie.

Happy writing, reading, and movie watching fellow humanoids.