Arty Anne is one of the brilliant set of shorts from the QMU degree show for which I've been able to find some trace on the web.  It's a lovely and moving documentary which like so many really good documentaries tells the story by letting the protagonists speak for themselves.  Arty Anne herself was sitting only a few seats away from me and seemed despite her poor vision to be thoroughly enjoying the show.

There was fiction as well as documentary and I loved a quirky little comedy that featured a young man who dressed up in the top half of a suit every morning and pretended to be a busy office worker while conducting an on-line flirtation.

And what about this juggling epic, isn’t it fun?
Back in the world to which I suppose most of those students aspire I saw Michael Douglas’s performance as Liberace in Beyond The Candelabra. It was a great performance, very convincing and quite out of what I would have imagined to be his comfort zone. He must surely get an Oscar for it. The film is a glorious riot of kitch with wonderful clothes and interiors to gasp at and bling that puts my one little silver ring firmly into the shade, although it’s ultimately a sad tale of love gone awry.

Things go awry for the characters in The Bling Ring.  It's a thin story about a group of Los Angeles teenagers who break into celebrities' houses while they're away and help themselves to clothing, shoes, handbags, jewellery, cash and in one case almost a dog.

It's said to be based on real events.  It seems barely conceivable to me that these well-heeled Angelinos wouldn't have had alarm systems connected to a response centre or at the very least that would make a loud noise, yet these kids burgle away to their hearts content for some time without being disturbed.

They have a whale of a time, post pictures of themselves and their booty on Facebook, do a lot of dancing, drinking, snorting and teen speaking till inevitably they are caught.  Not a lot of contrition is shown and the film ends with Emma Watson's character rabbiting on about the stress of being imprisoned next door to one of the celebs whose stuff she'd nicked.  I don't recall what the celeb had been banged up for.

Stick to Liberace if you fancy bling.