James and I haven’t been to the cinema for a while, not since the Apollo 11 documentary at the GFT in June I think. So when James noticed this afternoon that a wee film called “Yesterday” is still showing at the Fort we quickly booked tickets. I had quite fancied it when I saw it being touted by Danny Boyle on The One Show on BBC1 a few weeks ago but I thought that we must have missed it by now.
We had tea at Chiquitos beforehand, which was perfectly pleasant.
“Yesterday” is a feel-good film about a young unsuccessful songwriter who discovers that after some sort of global power outage (this turned out to be very topical *) various things have been wiped from history, including The Beatles. Only he can remember them due to being involved in a bicycle accident at the very moment that the electricity went off. (The plot does not bear too much scrutiny!) He starts playing Beatles songs to his friends and everyone loves them and he soon finds himself dealing with sudden (and largely undeserved) fame. It’s funny and has some good jokes about the music industry. The main actors, Himesh Patel and Lily James, were great, and Ed Sheeran was very good and self-deprecating in his supporting role. And of course the music is excellent. Apparently it has had mixed reviews but James and I both really enjoyed it.
* When we came out of the cinema we saw a message from Jennifer about two faulty generators causing power cuts across England early this evening, affecting about a million people. We watched the news about it when we got home. James of course is very knowledgeable about what has gone wrong. Jennifer kindly suggested that James retiring and the National Grid failing was no coincidence and that he must have been holding it all together!
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