Nothing on free-at-source TV, nothing recorded that we both want to watch, and yet an evening at home together with nothing much to do but watch TV. Flick through the list of films on Sky Pay-Per-View, and nothing much appeals. There are a couple that seem sufficiently promising to fulfil our immediate needs, so we plump for The Waiting Room. The on-screen synopsis describes it as 'beautiful and intelligent', which in some ways is all one really wants from a film.
And it was beautiful and intelligent. Apart from the characters who weren't all that, and the actors who were all very ordinary looking, except for the fact that the women were bizarrely androgynously flat-chested.
What was strange but nice about it was the location where it was filmed - a mixture of Tooting and Wandsworth Commons. The inaccurate moulding together of the two was not really a problem, even though it did seem strange to see a character leave Wandsworth Common station and walk down a path on Tooting Common to the bridge that carries the railway between Balham and Streatham Hill. It's not the first time I've seen such incongruous continuity but it's something I can live with, especially because I know it works perfectly for the overwhelming vast majority of the audience.
And they - especially Tooting Common - looked gorgeous. It was shot in early autumn, and I was particularly pleased to see that they used exactly the same self-consciously arty shot that I uploaded as a photograph just yesterday.
Overall, I would give it a good solid three-and-a-half out of five. Definitely worth watching but possibly not worth making time to catch
