film : Peter's Friends

Peter's Friends is 1992 British film about six old friends that are going to gather after 10 years. All together for first time. They had acted in a comedy troupe as students. But after so long time, everything is different, it's not as it was before. It makes think about friendship and the passage of the time.

I like this kind of comedy. The combination of closed site, reduced number of characters and clever conversations. Almost all the film passes in the luxurious country house, but the script is good and it never get boring.

The actors are all good, specially Hugh Laurie and Imelda Staunton. And I didn't know Kenneth Branagh was so talented.

This is a little part of the script, a conversation between Andrew (Branagh) and Maggie (Emma Thompson):

Any news on the boyfriend front?

I was kind of seeing someone. An author.

And what happened?

He committed suicide.

Oh, I'm so sorry.

It's all right, honestly, really. I didn't really like him very much. I liked him even less after he committed suicide.

How did he do it?

Threw himself off a building. He couldn't even do that properly. It was only a 3 storey building. He would have survived, only a car ran him over.

(Andrew laughs)

It's not funny.

It is slightly funny, Maggie.

I suppose so. Yes it is slightly funny.

What sort of books did he write?

Self-help.



The clip is a scene of the film, the song The Way You Look Tonight (Frank Sinatra). So sweet.