Second ‘Mersea Island Moving Images’ night last night – we watched (all six of us) the Steve Zissou experience.

Hmm. Maybe I’ve missed something, but it seemed like a lot of artifice in search of a good editor. It had plot – a good plot – but it seemed to get distracted with exploring characterisation when the characterisation (despite great actors) was not enough to sustain interest. In other words I didn’t actually care about the people involved.

It was as if it hadn’t made up it’s mind whether to be a whimsical piece of fantasy, or an engagement with real humanity. Either one of those would have been a great film. But this wasn’t.