The City and the City
Prime TV
I’ve been wanting to watch this for quite a while since I read the book some years ago (although I must admit that I had to read it twice before I fully got it, I mistook it for a magical realist setting). I was about to buy it on Apple TV+ when for no apparent reason Amazon sent me a £5 voucher for Prime TV so I bought it from there instead. Perhaps all these Alexa devices are interpreting my brainwaves…
Anyhoo… I did enjoy it, it kinda sounds unfilmable but they did a really good job of showing the disorientating nature of conditioned willing ignorance. The story was easy to follow and I liked all the characters and both the settings. The faux fonts in English were slightly grating but otherwise it just reeked atmosphere. A triumph of the film makers art.