Marvellous
BBC2
I first saw Marvellous, the world’s most unlikely biopic (25 September, 9pm), at a special screening at the BFI Southbank in London. The evening began, inevitably, with a certain amount of backslapping – “Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to all the wonderful people at . . . blah, blah . . .” – and, as a result, I sensed a nasty little maggot of resistance beginning to squirm inside me. Also, it was a Monday night. I wasn’t in the mood for a feel-good movie about a man with learning difficulties whose positive attitude to life perhaps contains a lesson for us all. Blurgh!
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