I Really Hate My Job Page #8

Synopsis: 'Every day is another day closer to the day I'll never have to do this again.' Five women, one restaurant, one night, one birthday, one breakdown. Then the phone rings. A famous actor is coming for dinner. I Really Hate My Job is the story of an evening in a café in London's Soho. As in so many jobs, nothing much happens - except laughter, song, rage, collapse, intrigue, cooking, lying, nudity, conversation, secrets, love, friendship, ageing, hatred, rat-infestation and the arrival of a movie star. I Really Hate My Job. Who hasn't said it? A career. It's what happens when you lose control of a car on a wet road and it slams into a brick wall. You might assume they're just three waitresses, one cook and one dishwasher but they see themselves as an artist, an actor, a lover, an author and a philosopher.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Oliver Parker
Production: 3DD Productions
 
IMDB:
5.4
NOT RATED
Year:
2007
90 min
105 Views


a husband and wife.

# Whether you're 50 #

Whether to 50

a Darby and Joan.

There's one thing certain...

that you have to own.

# Love is #

# The sweetest thing #

# What else on Earth

could ever bring #

# Such happiness #

# To everything #

# As love's old story #

# Love is #

# The strangest thing #

# No song of birds

upon the wing #

# Shall in our hearts

more sweetly sing #

# Than love's old story #

# Whatever hearts

may desire #

# Whatever fate may send #

# This is a tale

that never will tire #

# This is a song

without end #

# Love is #

# The greatest thing #

# The oldest #

# Yet the latest thing #

# My only hope

that fate may bring #

# Love's story to you #

[music continues]

Yes, and you, my dear.

And you.

They're fresh.

[crying]

Ma, you okay?

I'm fine.

I...

I really hate this...

bloody job.

Let's go.

So you're really

going to Chile?

Correct.

And this doesn't

terrify you?

Of course it does.

It fills me

with fear and dread.

So...

remind me why

it's worth it again.

Because fear and dread

mingled with

an overwhelming memory

of intense

sexual compatibility

is more appealing to me now

in this moment of time

than the crushing

predictability

of everyday life.

Okay.

Sounds like a plan.

No, I really think maybe

we should go somewhere

and have a beautiful

drink like a bellini.

Or... I don't know.

Why are you saying

all the time,

"I don't know"?

You know, I don't know.

They serve bellinis

at the Cafe de Paris.

The Cafe de Paris

it is, then.

I can tidy up tomorrow.

Alice, Rita, you coming?

- You're paying?

- No.

Oops.

Maybe we should

all go dancing.

[Alice]

What's a bellini?

Champagne and peach juice.

Oh.

Named after

a painter in Venice.

He painted

beautiful clouds.

All kind of colors.

Yellow, red, purple, rose.

So beautiful.

Is everyone invited?

If they keep

their clothes on.

So, Madonna,

you got any sisters?

I do, actually.

Two.

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Jennifer Higgie

Jennifer Higgie is an Australian novelist, screenwriter, art critic and editor of the London-based contemporary arts magazine, Frieze. more…

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