The Pontipines go to war

A story about watching 'In the Night Garden', and the time something actually looked like happening. This piece was written in 2013.

I once saw an arthouse film called The Circle. It was an Iranian film recommended by a few of my MIFF going friends, because it said important things about the status of women in the Muslim world. This was undoubtedly true, but it’s also true that it said them very slowly. There was one scene on a bus that lasted the entire ten minute ride, shot in real…