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I finally finished reading Sense and Sensibility... why in the world did Colonel Brandon choose that flighty melodramatic Marianne over her sensible, intelligent and level-headed sister Elinor? Guys...
I was reading about Alan Rickman's directorial debut, The Winter Guest. (It's also Sean Biggerstaff's big-screen debut, for you Oliver Wood fans out there.) Ok, a brief sypnosis:
Elspeth stubbornly picks her way across the icy streets of a coastal Scottish town to pay a visit to her daughter Frances. Frances, still paralyzed with grief following the death of her husband, does what many a daughter would do: she hides in the bathroom. Eventually, she emerges and the two women engage in the particular pas-de-deux of mothers and daughters. There is sarcasm and honesty, affectionate gestures and exasperated concern. At her mother's insistence, Thompson brings her camera on their walk on the windswept beach under the changeable winter sky. Photographing her mother, Frances sees Elspeth anew.
Juxtaposed against the interplay between Frances and Elspeth are the doings of three other pairs of local residents: Frances' son Alex and his new friend Nita; the old friends Lily and Chloe; and schoolboys Sam and Tom (Sean Biggerstaff). Each of the four pairs will come together, draw back and reunite in a different place in their relationship, their rhythms echoing the eternal retreat and advance of the ocean tide.
You can check out the trailer here. I have been looking all over for this movie, but the only place that remotely comes close is the National Library's super-protected research archive jealously guarded by psychopathic librarians. And it's not even the film, only the screen play. Just my luck that all the movies I want to watch are so incredibly hard to find in Singapore I'll probably get to watch it only if I sell my soul on eBay...and that'd be a bargain already.
And for those of you who are wondering why there is such an abundance of AR stuff today on my blog, today is Alan Rickman's birthday! *grins* Happy 57th, Alan!
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