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On NYE, watched the Powell/Pressburger film (as I gave partner the box set for Christmas I anticipate watching a lot of these in the near future), The Tales of Hoffmann, rather loosely based on the Offenbach opera.

It struck me that there was a certain slashiness about it: not only is Hoffmann constantly accompanied by his sidekick Nicklaus (a ( Read more... )