This feast is about friendship. In the evening we watched by mistake the film New Year’s Day. Apparently the Guardian film critic has panned it. True, it is cheesy and corny, but also life-enhancing. There is one line that no doubt irritated the too-intellectual critics. “Think of something you are afraid to do because you might fail, then do it.” The daughter returning to the dying man (Robert de Niro) may be predictable but the power of love is not lessened for being predictable.