My Family and Other Animals (knits in film)
The British naturalist Gerald Durrell wrote a series of memoirs; My Family and Other Animals is one of those memoirs that has been done as a film. I watched the 2005 version recently and was quite taken with the story…and the knitting.
As you know, movie directors and editors generally fail to understand that it is highly desirable to get tight still shots of all-over cabled vests knit at a fine gauge.
…or that a shot of knitting while in a boat is charming, but I’d really like to know what she’s working on.
They probably weren’t thinking that I’d be trying to get a clear view of the vests during a funeral scene.
Overall, the sort of film meant to be charming and funny – and it was for me, except that I kept seeing the looming shadow of WWII, knowing that Corfu would be bombarded, among other things.
