Erm,....getting a little soft in your post-chair are we??
Really wanted to enjoy In Bruges but somehow it just didn't grab me as much as I hoped. And I adore Bruges!
Will give this one a look though.

But for gritty realism, I had an unexpected dose of it last night. I have occasionally stumbled on bits of 'Get Carter' but never managed to see the film right through. Put that right last night. What a tough little film. Simple enough story. London hood goes to Newcastle to investigate death of brother and exact revenge and gets dragged through a grubby hinterland of vice, corruption and plain nastiness....which triggers the same reactions in him until its gets personal. Shakesperean ending. The cinematography is great, often setting scenes with characters working at long range in crowded places to increase the sense of detachment....or again in wide open spaces to enhance the desolation of the story and place. Caine is great, colouring the wide boy alfie facet with a genuinely nasty psychopathic tint. But the denouement is great. Truly bleak and miserable

OK it sounds like a downbeat movie, and it is. But it captures the seamy underbelly of the dying 60's dream as it turned sour in the 70's to perfection. I loved it!