Michael Kitchen shows up as the shortsighted romantic George Briggs, who Merry roué with a riotous habit of making trumpet sounds with his mouth. Want to read” – is Jim Broadbent, who plays the adulterous author as a Popular novels she finds scandalous – compulsively, I’d say desperately,Ĭhristian, she says things like “No one should write a book God wouldn’t Whom Lottie convinces to rent the castle, San Salvatore, with her, is String of firecrackers, and Miranda Richardson, who plays Rose Arbuthnot, Lawrence has an endearing way of popping off like a Gluing his camera to Molina’s gargoyle facial features. Lawrence), married to a frugal prig named Mellersh (Alfred Molina), by London is drenched in rain as theįilm begins, and Newell underscores the discomfort of Lottie Wilkins (Josie Tentativeness enhances a viewer’s enjoyment you experience the movie as a If the director, Mike Newell, were feeling his way through it. The film isn’t fluid or polished it skips around a bit, as The characters’ thoughts) that you didn’t anticipate – and often, as in theĬase of the voice-overs, that you would likely have predicted, wrongly, Screenwriter, English playwright Peter Barnes, has a quirky turn of phrase,Īnd he keeps throwing in twists and devices (like voice-overs transcribing It’s as different from the other movies as they are from each other. (TheĮxception, ironically, is the 1935 movie version of the same material, aġ922 novel by Elizabeth von Arnim).
Pictures, and Enchanted April is a charmer. Movie that almost always seems to work: I loved all of those earlier
I’m not sure why, but this is one sort of This forest-of-Arden variety to call it a genre – I Know Where I’m Going and Local Hero and High Season and, in a way, May Fools and Where the Heart Is (where the magic setting is aįantastical vision of New York). Month their lives – as well as the lives of two strangers who agree to Marriages, answer an ad to rent a castle in the Italian countryside for a Josie Lawrence and Joan Plowright in Enchanted April.ĭuring World War I, two middle-aged women, fed up with their dreary
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