Gigi Dupen

I remain so moved by this film; I saw it yesterday and it is still with me. It is hard to grasp how wonderful it is. It feels like the most wonderful thing that has happened, about the saddest tale. I was swept away by the film’s beauty, by it’s sound and colour, it’s styling - a close up of a time and place and people so gorgeous and so watchable. I couldn’t relate - but I wished I was there. The sexiness of it is off the scale and too cute! At the same time, every now and then I was left wondering how on earth someone (Barry Luhrmann, as I like to call him) was able to dream up this particular vision. With me throughout was an underlying sadness which grew so much I couldn’t look in the end. You tell me how Barry Luhrmann achieves that. On another level (there are many of them, get ready) having to accept that you are watching a performance is a trick in itself. Austin Butler is beautiful: inside, outside, on the microphone, on the dance floor. All of this, all of the above, happens at once. What a film!

Gorgeous! Just came out of the cinema and couldn’t wait to “right” a review. As a total newcomer to the musical Cats, my only expectation and hope for this film was that social media and other erroneous reviews got it wrong. And they did! Social media is so daft ... how can you review a film if you have only seen the trailer? Yet this is precisely how the bad reviews started. Glad I think nothing of social media. This film is so beautiful and so easy to love. I adored it! Gorgeous performances, so touching and so funny! Utterly lovely, a joy from start to finish! I will see it again with my cat. Okay, my husband. (I have one of each 😊!) 5 Meows!

I loved it. It’s like a heartbeat running through the whole film but underneath which is exactly where our hearts are: underneath. The whole film is made of heart brought to life with pure Wes Anderson imagination. Pure heart, pure imagination. I read a review beforehand that said it didn’t make sense so I prepared myself to enjoy it without rationalising. But what nonsense - it also made complete sense. Slow moving in the sense that you are transfixed, adsorbed into the film and there, feeling every scene, every moment, each pulse. Our favourite. My husband said it is now his favourite film. Beautiful.