erlangen’s cinestar cinema has a “ladies’ night”, the cinelady, once a month (the last wednesday each month), tonight’s showing is a preview of the latest pride & prejudice dramatization! doro has secured tickets weeks in advance and we are off to the movies tonight!
cinelady turns out to be a bit biased against us blokes: all female members of the audience get a glass of prosecco, the male participants get — nothing (as one of the “ladies” present [not my lady, i hasten to add] feels urged to explain to me in a rather gloating manner). hmph. doro very kindly, though, lets me sip from her glass.
it’s a huge room: seating easily between 400 and 500 persons. tonight, though, it’s chock-full with ladies; a woman next to us starts counting the men present, it looks like the fingers of one hand suffice…
after a bit of advertisements and previews of other movies, the lights are turned up again and the cinelady organisers appear on stage: a lottery! and doro wins a voucher for a cocktail in the downstairs bar! definitely my lady’s night 
the remake of pride and prejudice is quite well done: in contrast to the BBC version of 1995 it’s faster paced (out of necessity due to it being slightly over 2 hours long) but the essentials are there, and it manages to convey a more accurate picture of the social conditions at the time. quite well-done all in all — only drawback (judging by the grunts of disappointment rippling through the audience after the last scene): no wedding scene…
we conclude with cocktails (free one for doro, non-free one for me) at the downstairs bar.
