Had I been given a guillotine I would gladly have stuck my head in it, though only after finishing my bag of Revels which were delicious.I will begin by saying that Anne Hathaway as Fantine was brilliant; all shredded nerves, desperate glances, hopeless tears and a runny nose like a cross between Sinead O'Connor in Nothing Compares and that dead rabbit from Watership Down.
And there's the spectacular tent set up in Kensington Gardens for the Burberry show, complete with artificial rain, and the historic, gorgeous Somerset House, where dozens of fashion hopefuls gather each day, desperate for a glance of Anna Wintour.
Ends up, everyone's glancing around, desperate to see where the fun is.
At first glance, their camp looks like a desperate place for desperate people.
Her words were lying, but her eyes weren't: she kept shooting glances at the doctor, desperate for her to agree that Joe was normal, or even "normal".
The difference is instructive, because when he crosses from the right into the centre, it needs a desperate pair of eyebrows from McManus to glance a header away with Maznov waiting to crash a header home from six yards.
As the party reaches its finale, I notice an eerie parallel: It's Wahrendorff's equivalent of the moment when, in a regular club, you'd be glancing around for your last, desperate options for getting laid.
And so on, and so on, until, one day, you glance up from your device, depleted and desperate, wishing only to quiet, contain, or excise the whole debacle like a cancer.
The action is anchored in hushed stillness, and the enticing array of characters — and there are many more, including Bob's friend, a bar owner (Nate Parker), and the couple's little girl, Sylvie (played by the twins Kennadie and Jacklynn Smith) — comes to life in the present tense through fleetingly glanced gestures and gazes, quiet words and desperate caresses.
