“The Festival has long supported my work, from Poison and Dottie Gets Spanked in the early 1990s through to Carol which is screening on 35mm later this week in BFI Flare’s Best of Year programme. While Carol is a surprisingly recent film to top the poll, it’s a feature that has moved, delighted and enthralled audiences, and looks set to be a modern classic. The winner is Todd Haynes’ award-winning Carol, closely followed by Andrew Haigh’s Weekend, and Hong Kong romantic drama Happy Together, directed by Wong Kar-wai, in third place. The poll’s results represent 84 years of cinema and 12 countries, from countries including Thailand, Japan, Sweden and Spain, as well as films that showed at BFI Flare such as Orlando (1992), Beautiful Thing (1996), Weekend (2011) and Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013).
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I half-heartedly scolded him, convincing myself that, as long as I told him I wasn’t interested, I was doing nothing wrong. Soon, he was sending more suggestive emails, even telling me how he’d counted the freckles on my back one day. I started wearing more body-conscious clothes, and deliberately cultivated an ineptitude with our project, just so I could call Tom for assistance. Instead, I found other ways to further invite Tom's attention. It was a harmless flirtation, right? I even told Andy about it, who advised setting him straight. So when he emailed me one day to tell me he thought I looked hot in my red jeans, I told him off for being inappropriate, but was secretly quite pleased.
I was newly and happily married and Tom had a partner of 25 years and two young children. Confident, with an irreverent sense of humour, he was 13 years my senior with a deep voice and full beard.Īssuming it would pass, I never dwelt on this attraction. It was around this time that Tom* started emailing me. 'The door knocked, and I deleted my husband’s text'
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