Our first ever Tuesday night screening was a smashing success. Who knew? The experiment will continue. The biggest issue? I need to adjust my banana buying schedule, in order to have some nice ripe ones ready to bake into a loaf on a Tuesday… we only had a bit of leftover bread tonight. First world problems!

Mark Jenkin’s Bait is an eerily strange mixture of old and new. The old: 16mm black and white film, shot on a Bolex camera with sound (and a bit too much distress, in my opinion) added later. The [not so] new: The conflict between the locals and the gentrifying townies and their Airbnb guests. The protagonist, Martin, is a fisherman with no boat since a disagreement with his brother, who has gone over to the other side, seemingly, and has repurposed the boat to run daytrips for tourists.

“How was the drive?” asks one weekender of another. “Awful! Seven Hours.” “Same. Nevermind. We’re here now.” Kind of sums it up. Bait is a quirky must-see.

Speaking of quirky, we started our evening in the same vein, with Facing It, directed by Sam Gainsborough. Brilliant