what am I doing here?

I had suspicions 'Heart of Me' would be a woman's film before I went - the word heart in the title - two sisters - one man film blurb - Helen Bonham-Carter - still - I went. Before it started I went to the Gents - in the UK we men are still gentlemen when it comes to going for a pee - and when I came out - well - I saw that I was the only man in the audience - in fact others came in - later - but discreetly - when the lights went out.

The film was quite good - well OK - in a sort of a - married man has affair with wife's sister - sort of way. Helen Bonham-Carter is beautiful and has those eyes - those dark eyes - I understand the husband breaking the moral code of those days - of only having sex with the servants. She has a baby - which dies - in picturesque rural seaside location.

Relationship gets shaky - on screen that is - I managed to restrain myself - and husband - Rickey - and I'm sorry - I admit being a philistine - cept - probably they won't accept me the club - I kept thinking of Ricky - from East Ender's - Britain's favourite soap.

Anyway he leaves wife - lives in poverty - but goes back to wife after a heart attack - because mother lied - that Helen Bonham-Carter - well her character - to be know henceforth as the HBCC - the Helen Bonham-Carter character - had gone to France - so he stays with his wife - except he meets HBCC - and she hadn't - and he got very miffed - and rapes his wife.

Later he dies in an air raid trying to get a bracelet for the HBCC - which is inscribed with something about eternity - I am sorry I am a man - and I am sure every woman in the audience could quote it. Wife thought it was for her. Well HBCC and sister make up - as they watch wife's daughter fly a kite - and Kleenex do a roaring trade - then the Richmond Film House lights go on - and everyone looks embarrassed. Why do they put the lights on so quickly - they should let the poor women have a quiet sob - before politely hinting that we should leave.

Good film for women. Good between the war settings, lovely women, lovely frocks and for the man in your life - lovely old cars.