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One thing that I love about the film is how it captures a very distinct social setting and milieu. Lunch at Rules. G&Ts at Mark’s. A champagne reception at Oswald’s. Pints in a Shepherd Neame’s pub in Westminster. Discussion of Black Velvets over oysters by the sea.

I should say, as someone who regularly has to meet very rich people at these sorts of places, I do enjoy dipping into this world from time to time. I cannot imagine it being the only social setting you occupy though. Private clubs etc are all very samey and sterile, gets quite dull quite quickly.

Yes, it's fun to dip in an out of it. Around my birthday, I am prone to taking a day off work and having a potter around St James's, maybe have lunch at Sweetings, but goodness me, even if you had the cash to do that every day you'd surely start to think that there was more to life that that.