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'Orgies and romance don't belong in the same sentence'
Talking up saucy new film The Invite, director-star Olivia Wilde is very much mistaken if she thinks ‘everyone’s thought about an orgy of some kind’ (Metro, Mon).
Romance and orgy don’t belong in the same sentence… yuk! Julie, West Midlands
Are the English getting ‘a little bit more French’?
Wilde says ‘people are starting to get a little bit more “French” about it’ when it comes to orgies.
About time, too – some years ago a French acquaintance of mine told me that the thing she hated most about orgies in England was ‘all the queuing’. Julian Self, Wolverton
No such thing as ‘best’ films
I agree entirely with your chief film critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh that any list of so-called ‘best’ films needs interrogation (Metro, Fri).
She attempts to finesse the definition of ‘best’ by asking which films could be dubbed ‘the greatest’ and which ‘make a list feel alive’. Neither, however, tell us little more than the personal taste of the critic. Suppose that we demand of any list that the compiler be required to clarify their choices by adding one line of justification on each film.
Examples from my own putative list: Sunrise (1927) – for its definitive embodiment of the country versus city divide; Ulzana’s Raid (1972) – for its reworking of the cavalry western to render the Apache not as a murderous brute or noble savage but as an authentic bearer of the, albeit harsh, Apache culture; Ashes And Diamonds (1958) – for its formally dazzling interweaving of the socio-political forces of post-war Poland; Le Samourai (1967) – for elegantly crafting the end point of the gangster genre; and Far From Heaven (2002) – for its sense of film history in reworking Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows (1955) for a culture whose sexual and racial norms had changed.
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Congratulations, Larushka, keep asking questions about cinema. Colin, London
‘No point in having cheap rent if there’s nowhere to rent’
I note Generation Rent want rent controls as rates are ‘too expensive’.
It’s not rents that are too expensive but property prices. Landlords in the south-east can expect a yield of around four per cent – and that’s before tax.
Squeeze that and of course they will sell up. There is no point in having cheap, regulated rents if there is nowhere to rent.
The answer to high rents is to build more housing. It doesn’t matter if it’s one million council homes or private homes – more must be built. P Royan, London
‘Jiasas should be promoted to parents’
Rosie Murray-West (Metro, Mon) says targeting financial advertising at the old is a waste of time because their affairs will largely be in order. I’d disagree.
Junior Isas (Jisas) and Junior Self-Invested Personal Pensions (Jsipps) should be promoted to parents as a tax-efficient way to transfer small amounts of inter-generational wealth to the young.
As a parent, I’d like the rules changed to allow young people to be able to draw down from these to pay for post-secondary education (rather than at age 18 for Jisas or 55 for Jsipps, as per current rules).
This should especially be the case with trade skill and qualifications to deal with UK skills gaps, exam fees for home-schoolers and education/training from 16-18 if that would benefit neurodiverse children where costs are not covered under an Education, Health and Care Plan. Miles Thomas, London
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