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P2YL | 33. Five favourite films for a fallow season (+ one bonus film)

Katrina Robinson • 23 February 2025
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In Part 1 Of My Love-Life, books were for inspiration and films were for fluffy entertainment. In Part 2 Of My (Love?) Life, sitting in a London cinema as a newly-divorced woman, I had a revelation.


A film is like a book, right up there on a big screen. The right film at the right time can inspire and comfort and be a wise messenger. Especially in my own case during times when divorce-recovery, or the quest for new love, seemed to lie fallow like winter fields.


So here is my recommendation for five films (+ one bonus film) that for me paved the way through the fallow season towards a happy ending. Read more


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