There's nothing better on a cold winter morning than visiting the Arab baths in the centre of Granada.
Light a candle, pour yourself a cup of mint tea, and take a few minutes to experience the sensory pleasures of the hammam with me:
A dog show arena. I’ve got my large labradoodle on a leash in it and rather than performing the agility tasks that he clearly knows because we paid for our spoiled child’s education he decided to stick his head though the gate so he could be photographed by someone with a camera jus outside the arena.
We didn’t win, place, or show; but it’s all politics anyway.
Fingers crossed the next one will be better for all of us!
I'm so sorry! You can tell from the fact that I bought ice-cream to celebrate that I thought this was going to go in a very different direction
Netflix described this as a "spicy romantic comedy" 😱
It was nominated for multiple Goya awards and won best original score for 2004 but it's a pass from me
No rom or com. Do not recommend
The only good part was the Spanish practice and seeing the outfits from the 1920s #RomComWeek
Wikipedia is telling me Brenan is better known in Spain than he is in the UK. But fundamentally this is a story about an English man falling in love with a 16 year old girl and then abandoning her when she's pregnant, only to return three years later to take her baby #RomComWeek
Woah woah woah okay there's text saying this story was based on the life of Gerald Brenan, a writer who died in Málaga in 1987.
Presumably this was based on a memoir he wrote (and I guess I was supposed to know who Carrington and Lytton were) but alas
#RomComWeek
Elena speaks English fluently. Goode tries to introduce Juliana as her birth mother and she stops him and walks away
The three Brits walk off happy together as a family
The music is giving nostalgia but I am very confused #RomComWeek
Goode leaves Granada taking Elena with him and his [English wife]. We see Juliana watching them leave
Fade in to Juliana being much older - it's 20 years later in Granada and Juliana is still poor
She sees her daughter go into a sweet shop. She's run into Goode #RomComWeek
He says he has no right to take his daughter. Juliana says if Elena stays with her she'll die of hunger like the rest of them
Now they're kissing on her bed while the daughter giggles in the next room. The music says it's supposed to be romantic but ahhh.... #RomComWeek
Goode's now meeting his daughter, who's playing with the broken gramophone
Juliana comes in and he tells her she's beautiful. She asks him what he wants. She raised their daughter solo and he says sorry. She waited for him every day #RomComWeek
The woman who has with the priest earlier comes to see Goode - her kids have grown up and now she's going to go meet the priest in Graná where he's waiting for her. Good for her - their relationship seemed the most romantic of the film #RomComWeek
We're ending the film with a murder, but the culprit is caught redhanded and quickly arrested
Goode throws the biography he was working on of Teresa of Avila when he lived in the village in the fire
He decides he has to talk to Juliana #RomComWeek
So he was in Granada for a year, left for 3 years, and now he's saying hey to Paco
Lytton died. Carrington tried to kill herself and he saved her.
Juliana's pregnant with her new boyfriend. She had the daughter (Elena) named after Goode's mum, but he obviously has no relationship now with either
Goode's not covering himself in glory leaving his pregnant girlfriend to have the baby alone without a return date.
"Three years later"
Goode's driving back into the village with a moustache and another woman he's obviously with. I'm not sure if this is Carrington or someone else
#RomComWeek
Ralph writes that Lytton is very sick and he's worried Carrington will kill herself if he dies. So Goode's off to the UK without a return date - Juliana's worried he won't come back
They'll call the baby Elena after his mother if she's a girl #RomComWeek
Goode writes to Carrington: Why is it so difficult to find someone to be your confidante and your love at the same time?
Juliana's pregnant and Goode's celebrating
Goode forgives Paco - now they're besties again #RomComWeek
Juliana tells him she wants to have his kid but not to get married. He asks what she'll do with the kid and she tells him not to worry about it
All seems to be forgiven. They're dancing naked to the gramophone #RomComWeek
Goode's back. Juliana and his bestie who she just slept with run to hug him
The friend tells Goode he slept with Juliana as a test. "Friends share things". Goode's not impressed
Now he's confronting Juliana - she asks for forgiveness. The music made her lose control #RomComWeek
The Brits and Good are driving to Graná, and the priest joins them. He asked the woman he was sleeping with to marry him and she said no (but is also sad)
Juliana is now sleeping with another guy in the village, who's Goode's bestie and much older. Happened w/o warning and is v weird #RomComWeek
Now they're unexpectedly before an oracle in the form of a little boy (and I assume his mother). Juliana asks if she and Goode will have a kid and is told a beautiful girl. She believes it but the Brits all laugh and she doesn't take it well
Ralph and his mystery woman are doing an Argentine tango
They go to the beach - Juliana's first time. She doesn't see the point if they can't drink or bathe in it, but now the four of them are nude bathing. There's a lot of unexpected full frontal nudity from the two women (Ralph's brought a woman who's not Carrington) #RomComWeek
Goode bragging to Ralph in his next letter that he's in love with a girl from one of the poorest families and refers to the old pagan world of the Mediterranean
Some of the Brits are coming back. Goode's sleeping when Ralph arrives so he plays the gramophone to wake him up - it's almost romantic
Now it's just Goode and Juliana in the house. She's teaching him palm reading
He goes to her room. She hugs him way too tight and then there's a fade to black
She wakes up the next morning, panics and disappears for two days. Then she's back but Goode is broke #RomComWeek
Goode goes to the church to send a message that he doesn't want to marry an older woman who's propositioned him
He finds out the Catholic priest is having sex with a parishioner in the confessional
Then he pulls a gun on María and her daughter and tells them to leave his house. No marriage today
But he's about to become a godfather
María wants her daughter (Ángeles) to marry Goode so forces her to strip and get in his bed while he's sleeping. He wakes up and tells her sorry but he doesn't love her, but María's locked the bedroom door so she has to flee naked out the window #RomComWeek
Juliana has just delivered María's baby in a bed in Goode's house. Neither of us knew she was pregnant
Goode kisses Juliana and she slaps him. Although they seem to suggest she's a teenager the actress is in her mid-twenties so not sure if we misunderstood
Goode isn't a fan of babies #RomComWeek
40 minutes in and I'm calling it: this is neither romantic (although I think it's supposed to be), nor a comedy #RomComWeek
María doesn't want the woman from the river in the house (Juliana) - she's a witch. Goode stands up for her - she's brought basil
There's an insinuation that Juliana is 15 or 16 and she seems to have moved into the house to be with Goode but isn't interested. Creepy and confusing...
