bookshelves: film-only, play-dramatisation, period-piece, spring-2014, britain-england
Poliakoff in an interview with the Independent todays date 7th Apr 2014 : SP has set two of a new trilogy of films – Capturing Mary and A Real Summer – in that pivotal year of 1958. Both star Ruth Wilson, the young actress who played Jane Eyre in the recent BBC1 adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s novel, as an attractive young journalist whose ideas are ahead of her time.
“It was an extraordinary year, 1958. Wild Strawberries [by Ingmar Bergman] and Vertigo [Alfred Hitchcock] were premiered that year, and the play A Taste of Honey [Shelagh Delaney]. All this new work was just beginning to burst forward and yet society was way behind, the debs still being presented, an extraordinary sense of, ‘Will the world ever change?'”
Where this finishes ‘Capturing Jane’ steps in, and I will have to wait a while for that
3* Shooting the Past
CR Soft Targets
4* She’s Been Away
4* Playing with Trains
3* A Real Summer
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