It's not quite the bared-teeth industry satire you might hope for, and Bell currently knows herself better as a performer than as a film-maker, but the film represents a significant victory of charm over form.
Jahangir's mischievous affability and charm in private form a contrast with her steely public image and, along with her striking self-confidence, identify her immediately as a child of the Pakistani upper middle class.
A delightful little piece called the Bronx cocktail bracelet, from the 1930s, has charms in the form of Prohibition-era libations.
No other contemporary poet of note has proved as resistant as Oswald to the charms of this form; no other British poet writing in the lyric mainstream has managed to dodge its specific constraints so successfully.
But 'tis time that I bid you goodbye, till next year, By wishing you happiness, peace and good cheer: To the ladies, the charms both of form and of face... To the clergy, meek charity, unmix'd with pride -- And something to wake us on Sunday, beside!
He made friends quickly – getting invited to suite parties, mingling and sharing charms (in the form of virtual drinks) with other users, and generally being the funniest guy in the room.
Scriptures like the Kurma Purana explicitly identify Shiva with a Kapali – "an outsider who scares by his looks, and sometimes charms" – in this form.
And they displayed its absurdities and charms in authentic form, through performers who can sing, dance, act and crack dumb jokes with skill and energy that probably was never matched on any minstrel stage.
Despite everyone being university students, there was a distinct sixth-form charm to proceedings – probably enhanced by the house itself, which looked like the amalgamation of every boring, laminated-floored, middle-of-the-road property you slunk back to after school to play Fifa in your blazer.
It was a day for an Australian charm offensive in the form of a media merry-go-round.
