Margaret is expanding in London this week. So, if you’re in the area, I highly recommend you find time to see it. As I’ve previously said on the site, the film was worth the wait and Anna is fantastic.

From The Guardian:

The One Screen Wonder
Originally slated for release back in 2007, Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret finally hit UK screens at the weekend, or rather screen: it arrived only at the Odeon Panton Street in London. Not exactly venerated by the capital’s cinemagoers as a preferred venue, audiences nevertheless turned out there in force to see Lonergan’s long-awaited followup to You Can Count on Me, with ticket sales of £4,595. That number gave Margaret the highest screen average of any film on release, by some margin. This, despite the film only receiving one evening showtime per day (at 8pm), due to its hefty duration of 150 minutes.

The length of the film was one cause of dispute between Lonergan and backers Fox Searchlight, which had initially hoped for a two-hour edit, before compromising at two-and-a-half hours. Margaret earned five-star reviews from Time Out, the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian’s own Peter Bradshaw. It expands to 10 screens from Friday.

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