Emma.

We don’t go to the cinema anything like as often as we might. Except for the regular Saturday night operas live from the Met, which we book well in advance with our friends, we need a really good reason to make the effort.

Not that it is really that much effort of course.

Anyway, we saw Emma this weekend. Not just Emma but Emma. The most recent release with a . Full Stop. Why? Not why did we see it, but why the . Full Stop?

I hadn’t noticed it at all, until I read a feature in a newspaper about films with punctuation marks in their titles.

As usual, a google search delivered :

“Speaking exclusively to RadioTimes.com, director Autumn de Wilde revealed that the answer is pretty self-explanatory. “There’s a period at the end of Emma because it’s a period film,” she said. “It’s true!”

Oh come on. It does seem a bit precious though, don’t you think? Though as I also read in my search for the answer, be thankful we were spared Emma!

Anyway, we enjoyed the film and thought it fun. We might even have talked about it all the way home.

The film that is - but also the .

(And yes, the audience gasped at exactly the place where Mark Kermode said we would)