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Recovery, writing, reading: feat. Midwinter Break, Depeche Mode, Count Orsino, Robert Browning and some nearly cloned corgis

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Sam Leith
Mar 26, 2026
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I went on a rare trip to the cinema1 this week to see the excellently acted new movie Midwinter Break. Lesley Manville and Ciaran Hinds play a couple of Irish-born empty-nesters in their late sixties going on a not-very-jolly to Amsterdam. Difficulties, over the course of the trip, emerge in their marriage. It’s a slow, tender, and thoughtful piece of wo…

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