Have long wanted to visit, but we've always driven by. Looks terrific.

Her second novel 'Les amours dispersées' (translated as 'Scattered Love' and which I haven't yet read) tackles Yeats. She clearly has a cultural affinity with the Irish!

Maylis Besserie is a wonderful writer. Her debut novel 'Le Tiers Temps' (2020), an account of Beckett's last days in a Parisian nursing home, was published in English under the unattractive title 'Yell, Sam, If You Still Can' but otherwise recommended.

Yes - he uses 'a bollocks' [sic] in A Portrait of the Artist (p.231). Beckett enters the fray in Watt when he refers to Mr Knott’s discarded garments, which include ‘a knickerbockers’ and ‘a pant,’ the latter prompting memories of the West Brompton ‘mew’ in Murphy.

Aware of her novel, but haven't read it. Tonight's screening was introduced by Rufo Quintavalle, son of the Itlian writer Uberto Quintavalle, a non-actor who plays Eccelenza, one of the authority figures in the film.

More pictures from last night's gathering (courtesy of Mary Beer).

We'll have bouncers on the door throwing people in.

His intelligence is certainly rank.

Please look after this Author.

He'd never have to pay for another drink.