He pops in to the Ealing Octavia shop to look for CDs and DVDs and to look at other stuff. Yesterday we had a brief chat as I was wrapping a red dress for a very old lady who is going to Poland today. She will sport the garment at a seaside spa by the Baltic Sea! Good for her!
But back to the other customer. He turned out to be a film director Rob Hurtt.
Here is a synopsis of one of his productions:
'Mr and Mrs Love (2011)
A dark retelling of evacuation in World War Two, Mr and Mrs Love is in essence a fairytale about what happens when two children are sent to live with a couple who belch, bully and behave badly. Alison Garland is a fearsome and domineering Mrs Love; Paul Kelleher a mocking and flatulent Mr Love. Their on-screen presence makes this an incredibly engaging film.'
That's the one I'd like to see first as I know a person who come to England in a 'Kindertransport' train from Vienna after Austria was taken over by Nazi Germany. Old and troubled, the woman has long had flashbacks of those days when as a child in a foreign country and withouth knowing English, she had to survive along with her little brother. Of what I know they were more lucky with their placements (they stayed in different places: foster families and kind of orphanages), but it was truly traumatic...
There is a monument to the Kindertransport children outside Liverpool Street Station.
The one I photographed at St Pancras Station last Sunday refers to the heartbreaking farewells:
My encounter with Rob, the talented man, was short but inspiring. Now I need to find the time to watch his films. Just as well they are short and most of them are available online.;-) You can check out Rob Hurtt's channel on YouTube and let me know what you think. In his own words:
'Ealing writer and film director Rob Hurtt seeks collaborators and partners in crime to work and socialise in the area.'
I must finish now, but would like to get back to this post when possible.
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