Director: Niall MacCormick
Cast: Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Siubhan Harrison, Joseph Long, Georgina Sutcliffe,
Plot: A dramatisation of Christopher Reid's narrative poem that tells the story of an unnamed book editor who, fifteen years after their break-up, is meeting his former love for a nostalgic lunch at Zanzotti's, the Soho restaurant they used to frequent.
Film(ed) poetry: The Song of Lunch (2010)
Some things just sound like a bad idea. In 2010, Greg Wise, an executive producer at the BBC, decided to commission an adaptation of a long narrative poem by Christopher Reid to mark National Poetry Day in Britain. That poem, The Song of Lunch, […]