Ladies in Lavender
by Charles Dance
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Actor: Daniel Br?hl, Freddie Jones, Gregor Henderson-Begg, Judi Dench, Maggie SmithDirector: Charles Dance
Brand: DENCH,JUDI
Producer: Charles Dance
Writer: Charles Dance
Producer: Bill Allan
Producer: Bill Shephard
Producer: Elizabeth Karlsen
Producer: Emma Hayter
Writer: William J. Locke
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language); German (Original Language); Polish (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-06
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of Ladies in Lavender
DVD Review: Painfully ridiculous
Summary: 2 Stars
First, Maggie Smith and Judi Dench are spectacular actresses who did the best they could with this ridiculous material. That's why my review gives this film two stars rather than one.
Now for the ridiculous: (1) The Polish man who washes up on the Cornwall beach in 1935 is never asked to explain how he got there, or why he happened to be sailing off the English coast (when the Germans had already begun to rattle their swords??); (2) After recovering, the Polish man never expresses an interest in returning home to Poland, nor in contacting his (presumed) family and/or friends in Poland to let them know he has survived. No one seems to think this is odd; POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT (3) He is swept off to late-1930s Germany by a female artist he has met, without bothering to say good-bye to his very generous hostesses. THERE IS NO REASONABLE EXPLANATION for his conduct; (4) WHY would a Pole who has seemingly escaped his fate in Poland agree to return to late-1930s Germany when Hitler had made it clear he intended to invade Poland?
I think this movie was an excuse to watch two brilliant actresses at work, and to film the gorgeous Cornwall countryside.
DVD Review: Judi Dench and Maggie Smith
Summary: 5 Stars
I first saw Maggie Smith in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" and Judi Dench in "Tea with Mussolini". These two artists are glorious in this beautiful little miracle of a movie. It is set in a most enchanting place and the music makes you cry. As Lionel would say, "Well that's it really."DVD Review: Great actress, wonderful scene with excellent classic music
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the movie recommended when I was reading the information about Mrs. Henderson Present. I bought the movie simply out of the good rating and did not even consider the part of the classic music. Well, where they filmed the movie is just so beautiful that my mother enjoyed it so much and watched it twice already. I did not know that Joshua Bell could play the voilin so well until I heard the music at the end. The actress for both elderly adies are excellent. It is amazing that the director could come up with such a nice piece for such a simple short stories. I wish there were more of this kind of movies that both generation can enjoy and share.DVD Review: SUPERLATIVES FOR THIS CINEMATIC ENDEAVOR
Summary: 5 Stars
It is impossible to fully express all the pleasure and joy I obtained through witnessing this British film; what a magnificent, thought-provoking and rewarding tour-de-force awaits the viewer! Prepare yourself for an intellectually stimulating, touching fragment of human experience rarely portrayed on screen, yet totally believable here in its sensitive between-world-wars portrayal. The dazzling English cinematography is superb and totally nestles within the plot.DVD Review: Enjoyable film
Summary: 3 Stars
Wonderful performances by Dame Judy Dench and Maggie Smith. The Cornwall, England country side and the little house makes me wanted to visit the area. The movie description reads beautifully, but was executed in a disappointing fashion. The story fails to grab the viewer and bring depth to the experiences and interactions. I couldn't identify with the violinist as a personality. He projects the image of an overgrown selfish young adult. A start contrast to the sensitive way in which he plays his violin. The story line is tenuous and doesn't satisfy.
Description of Ladies in Lavender
Two sisters find their lives changed after helping a mysterious young man who drifted ashore badly injured.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 3-APR-2007
Media Type: DVD
A couple of old Dames make the slender story of Ladies in Lavender surprisingly moving. Janet and Ursula (Maggie Smith and Judi Dench), a pair of elderly sisters living on the Cornish coast, discover a young Polish man named Andrea (Daniel Bruhl, Goodbye Lenin!) washed ashore and barely alive. They nurse him back to health and discover that he's a talented violinist--a fact also recognized by a mysterious young woman (Natascha McElhone, The Truman Show), who may woo Andrea away from them. The core of the movie is not its plot but the skillful and delicate play of emotions underlying how the sisters treat Andrea; Ursula, a spinster, finds herself sliding from maternal affection to an embarrassing but irresistible schoolgirl crush. Ladies in Lavender captures something that few contemporary movies bother to consider: Older men and women are as capable of passion and desire as the young, but the young carelessly (and sometimes cruelly) disregard the old. In the hands of Dench (Shakespeare in Love, Iris) and Smith (California Suite, Gosford Park)--as well as David Warner (Time After Time) as a bitter doctor--Ladies in Lavender becomes a bit like a violin concerto itself: Discreet and subtle, but finding in the smallest movements a richness of feeling. --Bret Fetzer
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