The cinema-going public is changing.
Where once Britain’s multiplexes were dominated by throngs of popcorn-munching, cola-slurping teenagers, now – says the British Film Institute – audiences are primarily populated by more mature viewers. The official statistics lump together everyone over 45, but a glance at the roster of recent British films (Quartet, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, to name but three) confirms that the surge is, in the main, at the upper end of the age range.