Richard Curtis’ “Love Actually” is often misunderstood as an ensemble romantic comedy, intertwining numerous criss-crossing plots in the run up to Christmas. It is, in fact, an avante garde adaptation of a grand British Christmas institution: “Love Actually” is the cinematic adaptation of a tin of Cadbury’s Roses (or Quality Street if you prefer, but does anyone really prefer Quality Street?)

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Typical. You wait years for stirring tales of British ingenuity and wartime innovation and then two come along at the same time. There’s a great deal of overlap between the story of Robert Watson Watt’s pioneering work to create radar in “Castles In The Sky” and Alan Turing’s quest to crack Nazi Germany’s impenetrable Enigma code in “The Imitation Game”. The stark differences come when the…