The Song Of Lunch - 2010 - 7/10
He gazes at her wrist, so elegant and deft, with conjecture and speculation.
Has it truly been ten years? Fifteen? So little has changed.
Well, she is married, with two children.
While he remains a has-been poet, after she had married that successful fraud.
Two old flames meet for lunch. Why, you wonder.
To rekindle? Or to reaffirm?
Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman in pocket drama, although the latter carries most of the soured load.
Adapted from a poem, the dance of language in this is magical.