i would watch isabelle huppert in anything. it's just the strange thing about seeing them together on screen in this, these two enormous titans of acting just having a good time, just... 0k, fine, it's a nice, fanciful... so if we want a bit of escapist fun, and people need that... yes. and it is absolutely nothing but escapist fun. but, hey, if that's what you want from the cinema, this will give it to you. it's a big sugar popcorn, sweetness episode. that's it. i feel as if i've seen it already. i know what you're getting at. we all love lesley manville. however, let's move on. 0k. the woman king. so this opens on tuesday, on the 4th. it's been generating a lot of awards buzz since it played at...i think it was toronto. a lot of that buzz is for viola davis, who plays nanisca. she is the general of the agojie, an elite force of female soldiers guarding the dahomey kingdom in west africa in the 1820s. the plot involves conflict with neighbouring warlords, portuguese slave traders. there is plenty of spectacle, plenty of action

so she goes to paris and she turns up at the house of dior, where isabelle huppert is, let's be honests, saved every penny, scrubbing floors and i don't know- what, so i can buy this frock. a christian dior gown is not for pennies. if you think i ain't - got the money, there.