Finished watching St. Peter's Fair from the Brother Cadfael series. The first 10 3/4 minutes are comprised of exterior and interior scenes set at night, with only torches and candles the sources of illumination as the traders prepare for the fair. Then the camera cuts to the opening fair in dazzling daylight, providing a wonderful, visual shock.

I love those traders' caravans with lots of apertures. They remind me of Tiny House, trailer homes,  and wandering gypsies. Other delicious sets and props were a glover's stall, a cobbler's shop, a makeshift theater for mimes, a basket of love charms and potions in exquisite bottles, huge leather wineskins, carved and inlaid caskets, a brass mirror in which a woman can see the face of her true love, a muzzled, dancing bear, a fire eater, a falconer, carved and inlaid boxes, and Brother Cadfael's big book of herbal recipes, leatherbound and embellished with white studs. All these nice things aside, the substance of the story was all about political treachery in a time of war.