and i'm a big pedro almodovarfan, i loved the short film that he made, the human voice, just recentlylike this is not one of his best works. it has some great elements in it, and it has some things in it that i will cherish, but it did feel like two films and, like i said, not so much parallel as kind of tangential. how fascinating. he doesn't usually do politics, does he? he has done political comedy before, but it's never really landed for me. but this is, you know, this is a serious work. it's serious, and it's clearly very personal and heartfelt. i wish i liked it more than i did. which brings me rather nicely onto amulet, which is a british horror movie, written and directed by romola garai. this is her directorial debut. and the story is an ex—soldier from an unnamed european conflict finds himself destitute in london, he is taken in by a nun played by imelda staunton, in a horror movie, which is never a good sign. and she says, look, i can give you a house to stay in, but you have to do the house up, and incidentally, in the house is magda, who is looking after her mother who i