28 January 2014
Last night’s premiere of Private Lives — where we learnt that China is very big and Japan is very small — made guests nostalgic for the Thirties golden age of fast-talking divorce romances. The “premiere” is a filmed version of the play, released in cinemas next Thursday.
“Hollywood used to be happy to put plays on screen,” said actress Haydn Gwynne, pictured left with Anna-Louise Plowman, who is in the cast. “People didn’t apologise for making films full of words and wit. I say to my sons ‘Not all romcoms are bad. But they have to have a real script.’” Private Lives might just be it.
