ATP, providing an unpredictable but well-manicured electro-acoustic backing to something that almost certainly wasn't Battleship Potemkin or the Bicycle Thieves, but might have been. It was definitely very old, in black and white, and in a very scratched-up print. This was extremely likeable and effective; a chamber group, carefully marshalled by someone who obviously has plenty of technical feel for soundtracks giving a room full of non-cinephiles a reason to see some cracking footage. It's therefore a very doubtful state of affairs to find the group expanded hugely, and fronting a preview screening of a Disney natural-world sob-fest about the (admittedly beautiful) pink flamingoes that inhabit one of the vast lakes in central Africa. The filming is very showy, like an emotional cattle-prod wrapped up in an airline commercial.
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