Ladies in Lavender (2004)
Country: GB
Technical: col 104m
Director: Charles Dance
Cast: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Natascha McElhone, Miriam Margolyes, David Warner, Daniel Brühl, Freddie Jones
Synopsis:
A random Pole is washed up on the private Cornish beach of two reasonably well-to-do sisters, who moon and busy themselves over him until it transpires he is a brilliantly gifted violinist with interests beyond their closely circumscribed, parochial world. When he is spotted by the artist sister of a world famous virtuoso, they confront their bereavement with deception first, and finally resignation.
Review:
Chocolate-boxy period piece, set pre-WW2, which relies heavily on the accrued stock of its septuagenarian female cast for its effectiveness with audiences (at least the one I was with) but which deserves credit for its restraint in other departments - the lengths to which the jealousy of the amorous doctor is prepared to go, the hostility of the other villagers, the potential for romance between Olga and Andrea (she is absent even from his triumphant final concert). On the debit side there are the shots of the violinist playing on a rocky promontory at dusk, and in a garden pulpit. Anyway, the music is exquisite, in the Morricone idiom.
Country: GB
Technical: col 104m
Director: Charles Dance
Cast: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Natascha McElhone, Miriam Margolyes, David Warner, Daniel Brühl, Freddie Jones
Synopsis:
A random Pole is washed up on the private Cornish beach of two reasonably well-to-do sisters, who moon and busy themselves over him until it transpires he is a brilliantly gifted violinist with interests beyond their closely circumscribed, parochial world. When he is spotted by the artist sister of a world famous virtuoso, they confront their bereavement with deception first, and finally resignation.
Review:
Chocolate-boxy period piece, set pre-WW2, which relies heavily on the accrued stock of its septuagenarian female cast for its effectiveness with audiences (at least the one I was with) but which deserves credit for its restraint in other departments - the lengths to which the jealousy of the amorous doctor is prepared to go, the hostility of the other villagers, the potential for romance between Olga and Andrea (she is absent even from his triumphant final concert). On the debit side there are the shots of the violinist playing on a rocky promontory at dusk, and in a garden pulpit. Anyway, the music is exquisite, in the Morricone idiom.
Country: GB
Technical: col 104m
Director: Charles Dance
Cast: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Natascha McElhone, Miriam Margolyes, David Warner, Daniel Brühl, Freddie Jones
Synopsis:
A random Pole is washed up on the private Cornish beach of two reasonably well-to-do sisters, who moon and busy themselves over him until it transpires he is a brilliantly gifted violinist with interests beyond their closely circumscribed, parochial world. When he is spotted by the artist sister of a world famous virtuoso, they confront their bereavement with deception first, and finally resignation.
Review:
Chocolate-boxy period piece, set pre-WW2, which relies heavily on the accrued stock of its septuagenarian female cast for its effectiveness with audiences (at least the one I was with) but which deserves credit for its restraint in other departments - the lengths to which the jealousy of the amorous doctor is prepared to go, the hostility of the other villagers, the potential for romance between Olga and Andrea (she is absent even from his triumphant final concert). On the debit side there are the shots of the violinist playing on a rocky promontory at dusk, and in a garden pulpit. Anyway, the music is exquisite, in the Morricone idiom.