Moon Film Review - Tulip Fever

Your Cultural Correspondent (now infrequently Film) has lately started reading Mr Charles MacKay's 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds'. First published in 1841, it seems somehow relevant to today's 'situation'. Anyway, before we stray onto matters political, the reason we mention the book is that it has a chapter entitled 'The Tulipomania'.

That is very fitting as the most recent film Your Cultural Correspondent (Film) went to see was 'Tulip Fever'. It is set during the 17th century Tulip Wars when people in Holland were going crazy over the flower, both in bulb and in bloom. While we wouldn't go so far as to say that the film was blooming marvellous or that it left us fevered, we did enjoy it nonetheless. The reason for that was the splendour of the actors, well three of them anyway. First, Mr Christoph Waltz as Cornelis Sandvoort. Second, Mr Tom Hollander as Dr Sorgh. Third, and of course, Dame Judi Dench as the Abbess, another role she managed to get her 'grubby paws on'.

Un applauso a tutti.