Ladies in lavender

Few slow films have the capacity to move you so much. Ladies in lavender is a beautiful story about two sisters who rescue a young foreigner washed ashore. Their feelings for and around this young man make the movie. The direction is subtle yet crisp, the story flows slowly, gently but decidedly. Judi Dench and Maggi Smith are stars in their simplicity. The variety of emotions they are able to convey without speaking a word - acting at its best, at least from the little cinema that I have seen.

On another note, the picturisation of Cornwall, the sea, the pebbly sand, the rocky shores - oh what absolute beauty! The quaint village life, the tiny lavender wreaths on old china, the fireplaces and the cut-work on the cotton night gowns, what loveliness! I want to go to Cornwall and stay in exactly that cottage by the sea!

T asked me today if I had seen any new movies lately, and I told her, quite honestly, that I had seen one in the last twelve months. This makes it two, the other one being this.