The whole story takes place in a pub which is owned by Judi Dench's character. She seems to have been enjoying the somewhat bohemian guests of hers for some years. We are in the aftermath of WWII. A lot of troubled minds are gathering in her place night after night to have a drink but even more importantly, a talk about life in general and all the quarrels that it brings. As I said, there are lots of bohemians there, film producers, writers and... well intellectuals of all kinds, plus the guests who simply don't seem to have elsewhere to go. Different issues are to be discussed over a period of some weeks. We see the same faces come and go over the time, affairs begin and end, long-time relationships come to an end and a new beginning. We see refugees from central Europe. There are topics like homosexuality during those days in the UK, the Holocaust that just took place, lost friends and how the guests of that pub deal with it all. All in all this occurs to me like a film-noir version of a post-war "vie en rose" set in London in the late forties. Basically everyone is trying to forget about something, or run from something, even trying to find the real self, finding some kind of orientation or running away from the ghosts of the past and all with the help from a lot of drinks. The genuine expression for this kind of behaviour is "escape", may it be sex or alcohol. Everyone is busy dealing with her / his own problems, instead of reflecting about the things to come or the things that were or the people that surround them.
Genre: Drama
Pass:REAL
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