Blue Blood

I love attending special screenings of films. It seems only natural that I would. For I want to be famous. Famous in an intellectual sort of way. Pah.

So when a friend of mine invited me to a special screening of the new docu-drama 'Blue Blood' I was only too happy to oblige (and take the ravishing Belle de Bengal) with me.

The film was far more enjoyable than I had first anticipated. Funny and meaningful in equal measures. Although the film is essentially about the pursuit of a group of Oxford students as they prepare for a boxing contest against Cambridge, I came away feeling it was an attempt to dispel the myth of what Oxbridge students are like and what they do. Fair enough, I thought. It was only when the cast members then clarified that many were now working within finance in London after graduating that things hit a new level of predictability.

Never mind eh? The champagne and canopes that followed in the delightful rain forest at the top of the Barbican Centre made the whole predictability worthwhile. Of particular interest was the orange cheesecake topped with a slice of duck. Rather nice.