The sort of part that Hugh Grant should think about taking on once he has tired of portraying grizzled vigilantes and depraved porn barons. Though Gleeson himself is Irish - he’s the son of the great character actor Brendan Gleeson - he is playing an easily flummoxed, self-deprecating Englishman. A very British sort of time-travel, in other words. One of his cleverest moves was to choose the pink-and-perky Domhnall Gleeson to play Tim, the budding lawyer who is told on his 21st birthday by his father (Bill Nighy) that all the men in their family have the ability to travel through time - just within their own lifetime, that is, and only backwards to events that have already happened and then forwards again to the present day. Despite loathing the previous two pictures from this writer-director ( The Boat That Rocked and Love, Actually), I can see that About Time is a progression of sorts for Curtis.

Not that I am wholeheartedly negative about this curious movie. I come to you today not to review Richard Curtis’s new film About Time but rather to scrutinise one of its most revealingly misjudged scenes.

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