Enjoyed the premier UK screening of Veronica Mckenzies Nine Nights at the Southbank at 15:30 , the Metropolitan line had planned engineering works from Wembley Park to Aldgate & I felt blessed to of arrived on time via the Jubilee line even if it was only a minute and very few seats left.
Nine Nights was written & directed by Veronica divining the premature death of her mother & how she coped over the African (? Might not of heard it correctly) traditional morning period. The 99 min film followed lead 'Marcia Haines' through the traumatic grieving and psychological disturbance of denial disbelief & distress of walking away from her brother Michaels road collision & her subsequent coming to terms with relationships between her Mothers family. The Father had left earlier and wasn't represented but is called into the storyline several occasions with the sisters explaining their past.

Having recently performed at a Haitian funeral featuring the screaming section where the relatives scream emotionally at the open or closed coffin and the congregation shout and the spirits are quenched with airs of pain and tribal angst (If you've seen On Green Dolphin Street or Live & let Die your way over doing it, there's no intentional sacrifices to Gods or Voodoo to appease possible future deaths or claims.)

The approachable dark humour demonstrated Mckenzies coping and community spirit was displayed clearly in the locations and within the audience. I felt Diane Parish could have entered any of the scenes at any moment , the soundtrack featured beautiful arranging and compositions by Arhynn Descy (South African?) & I wish Veronica & her team the upmost success at securing UK cinema distribution.