To celebrate the 70th birthday of the film director Bill Forsyth, the GFT put on a special screening of his 1983 film, Local Hero, this afternoon. I was excited to go to this because Local Hero is one of my favourite films. James, Davie and Grandma came with me.
It was so lovely to see the film on the big screen again; the cinema was full. The actors all looked so young, especially Peter Capaldi, and there were lots of well known Scottish actors playing small parts like Jonathan Watson and Rikki Fulton. It was quirky and funny and the music was great, but for me the scenery was the star of the show. I know that Local Hero was in fact filmed in several locations; the village itself was in Aberdeenshire and the beach scenes were filmed at Morar and Arisaig in the north west.
I have blogged before about my love for the north west of Scotland; I have some sort of visceral feeling for the area which makes me wonder if it is the land of my ancestors (although I have no evidence of this!) and I like to visit it as often as possible. The beach scenes made me absolutely desperate to get back there; there was a scene with Peter Capaldi and Jenny Seagrove which featured rock pools and a clear, calm sea where you could clearly see the sand beneath, and the particular sound of the sea lapping against rocks, which reminds me of childhood Scottish seaside holidays. Later I told James about how I felt and he pointed out that we are going to Strontian on the Ardnamurchan peninsula for the weekend in two weeks, which means that I can go to Sanna Bay! This delighted me.
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