Geoffrey Matthews - Espace designer - documentary, must see!

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Posted this in General Gassing yesterday - recommend you try and see this if you can.

This Was My Dad - The Rise & Fall of Geoffrey Matthews.


Caught this on BBC4 the other night, charting the life and death of car designer Geoffrey Matthews - one of the most affecting and moving, tragic and yet somehow uplifting films I've seen in a long time - if you can find the time, you'll be richly rewarded.

25 days left to watch on BBC iPlayer http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08xyq06

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/jul/...

[coopedup]

Thanks for that, will have a look later

[ray von]

Hmmm I was going to say 'There's 90 mins of my life I won't get back' but that would be a tad harsh as it was about someones death.I couldn't see anything uplifting about it all.

[V8covin]

ray von said:

Hmmm I was going to say 'There's 90 mins of my life I won't get back' but that would be a tad harsh as it was about someones death.I couldn't see anything uplifting about it all.

I was going to say something similar but didn't want to come across as a heartless bd lol

Clearly he was a clever man who had fallen on hard times but continued to live beyond his means and continued to smoke like a chimney and drink like it was going out of fashion even after he became ill....it's not surprising he went like he did and I found it rather distasteful filming him dead.
His wife was a 'character' wasn't she

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ray von said:

Hmmm I was going to say 'There's 90 mins of my life I won't get back' but that would be a tad harsh as it was about someones death.I couldn't see anything uplifting about it all.

The alpacas was about as uplifting as it got!

Clearly a clever guy but one who seemed to be waiting to recapture his big break from his youth whilst smoking and drinking his life away, living beyond his means. Sad really

Not so sure I would want to film my dad in a similar situation.

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The uplifting part for me, was that he died a loved man.

No matter that he hadn't lived a perfect life (which of us has) but at the end, there was someone there to mark his existence.

That he'd come from difficult beginnings, reached great highs and lows and was loved and would be missed.

What could have been an entirely tragic narrative became more than that.