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BABY BOOM

(1987) PG ● 2.45PM, FILM4 ★★★ Diane Keaton is marvellous as the career woman whose life in the city is upended when a baby lands in her lap. Starting over in the countryside, she soon finds a new kind of fulfilment.

PERSONAL COLUMN (1947) PG

3PM, TALKING PICTURES TV ★★★★

A film noir from Douglas Sirk, betterknown for melodramas such as All That Heaven Allows. It stars Lucille Ball as the woman who helps police to track down a serial killer targeting women he meets through newspaper personal columns.

EMPIRE OF THE SUN

(1987) PG ● 9PM, bbc4 ★★★★★ Based on J.G. Ballard’s semiautobiographical novel, this coming-of-age drama stars Christian Bale as the privileged English schoolboy growing up in Shanghai during the Second World War. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, his world is shattered when he is interned

in a POW camp.

SAINT FRANCES (2019) 15 11.15PM, FILM4

★★★★

This American indie drama follows 34-year-old waitress Bridget, a woman continuing through life without a grand plan, and all the more real for it. We follow child-phobic Bridget (Kelly O’sullivan, who also wrote the screenplay) as she takes a job as a nanny for six-year-old Frances (cute-as-a-button Ramona Edith Williams, left, with O’sullivan) while dealing with an entirely unwanted pregnancy.

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