So a very long time ago I bought Papillon the book, and was impressed. Then a few years later I saw the first Papillon the film, and was impressed. Last night, confined to barracks by Covid-19, we watched the latest iteration of Papillon on dvd.
   It's fair to say we were impressed.
   It's a ready-made plot for a film (if you can call it a 'plot', given that it all actually happened), but even so it was well done and the main characters were really believable. I occasionally thought that things seemed to clean, compared to what it must have been like in reality. Uniforms almost spotless, for example. But this didn't really detract from the powerful performances and the way in which events just steamrollered on. I knew what was going to happen at any given point, but I was just as glued to the scene as Ivy and Dylan.
   Dylan said, 'It was good.' Wow, high praise indeed from a teenager. So definitely consider watching it, if you get the chance.