Ladies in Lavender
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: DENCH,JUDI
EAN: 9781404914339
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1404914331
Item Dimensions: 24
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1FrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1GermanOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1PolishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1EnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: D13106D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: December 06, 2005
Running Time: 104 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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Editorial Review:Product Description: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
Amazon.com: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
Average Rating:
Rating:
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This movie was entertaining but I feared that the BAD DOCTOR and the fears of German war pending would destroy this boy who came from no where. But all ended well. Typical of many British movies I ask myself at the end what was the point. At least the accent did not interfere with my understanding of the movie. However, I thirsted for more than the short vignettes supporting the plot and found the choppy cut and paste sequences short and weak, BUT, THE MOVIE DID HOLD MY INTEREST and I was entertained and did not fall asleep.
Rating:
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While Judi Dench and Maggie Smith are fabulous actresses, I had a difficult time with this plot. In fact, there wasn't one. Mysterious young Polish man gets washed ashore. Two old maids take him in. He is healed. He plays the violin beautifully. Judi Dench falls in love with him. He goes away and becomes a concert violinist. End of story. Kind of a film festival-type film. There was no climax, no real problem solved. I don't enjoy the kind of plot where a poor old maid realizes for the first time in her life that she hasn't ever had romance, and probably never will (especially if she keeps falling for young men). Kinda depressing. They even threw in the f-word to try to attract certain audiences who evidently enjoy hearing those types of words. Kind of a dive for two celebrated actresses.
Rating:
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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.
Rating:
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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."
Rating:
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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.
Copyright ©2003, Mark Carey.
