on this evidence we can expect to see much more of both roxanne and boulifa in the future. decent person. lynn + lucy is on bfi player now along with other platforms and i recommend you check it out as soon as possible. it is shaping up as one of my favourite films of the year. from britain to tokyo, with a new movie by german film—maker werner herzog, family romance llc. a stranger than fiction tale of a japanese company who hire out surrogate friends and relatives for weddings, parties, funerals, and perhaps something more. we open with a meeting between a young girl and her estranged father. actually the real—life chief of the real—life company on whom the film is based. during the course of the drama which looks weirdly like a documentary, we see this chameleon—like character pretending to be a railway station employee in order to take on the shame of a worker who let a train leave early and organising real these performances are, an issue which the strange hybrid form of herzog's films seem to mirror. i've been a devoted fan of herzog since the days of fitz and god fro