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My partner is a therapist. She treats people who have suffered sexual assault, torture and other major traumas. I am a movie guy. When we go somewhere, therefore, I am the light relief. She gives me gravitas; I give her a hint of showbiz, a bit of bling. We’re a bit like the Sarkozys in reverse.
I’m used to being the bauble. Look at a typical issue of this magazine. My film column, “Widescreen,” nestles beside articles on business, politics, medicine, foreign policy and the environment. How can I not feel a bit frou frou against all that?? Science, economics, education, religion, transport, agriculture and philosophy shape how we think and live. (I might not be here if doctors had not treated the jaundice I caught as a child.) In comparison, cinema is a tiddler. It’s just 113 years old. It is small, young and disposable. It can’t extend our lives or treat pain or build bridges or grow cabbages.
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