Ladies in Lavender

[Gothampc]

Posted: 5/1/05 at 8:02pm

Get thee to the cinema quick to see "Ladies in Lavender".

It has the wonderful Dames Judi Dench and Maggie Smith, as well as Miriam Margoyles. This movie is wonderfully acted.

The dames play two British sisters living in Cornwall England. A young Polish man comes into their lives and they care for him.

See it! It's great acting

[Elphaba]

Posted: 5/1/05 at 8:04pm

goth, this is next on my list...I've heard it's great!

[Gothampc]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 3:45pm

Bump for the culturally deficient on this board.

[shira467]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 3:46pm

It's playing at the same theater where I saw "Enron" maybe I'll check it out!

Posted: 5/2/05 at 3:47pm

We just saw that this is playing in Pasadena, for any other SoCal people. A friend of ours told us about it months ago (saw it in England) and loved it.

[shira467]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 3:51pm

Also in Encino

[Gothampc]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 3:56pm

Judi Dench could paint her toenails and it would be interesting. Maggie Smith could floss her teeth and you'd get a good show!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 4:06pm

I saw the 2 of them on Charlie Rose--what a treat to see them together, unscripted, finsihing each other's sentences, speaking at the same time. At times it was almost incomprehensible, but what fun!

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 4:08pm

Is this a remake of The Whales Of August?

[redmustang]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 10:50pm

I'll be in Manhattan next week. Where is it showing, please??

[Gothampc]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 11:30pm

Currently it's showing at the Paris on West 58th Street (across from the Plaza Hotel). But check www.moviefone.com to make sure it hasn't moved to another theater.

[redmustang]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 8:18pm

Thanks, Gothampc.

[shira467]

Posted: 5/10/05 at 5:11pm

I just saw the movie today -- it was marvelous, I can't recommned it enough.

And just to tell you all -- Natasha McElhone is gorgeous.

[paradox_error]

Posted: 6/1/05 at 4:17pm

A rather interesting film, brilliantly acted...

My biggest gripe was the choice to use a german actor to play a Polish man - he speaks with rather terrible Polish. His accent while speaking Polish is clearly German, and as a teacher of Polish students, he didn't speak English the same way they do.

ALSO - In Polish the name is ANDRZEJ (Andr-zhey), not ANDREA.

AND, in the scene where he gets upset when Dame Smith's character is playing the piano badly, he makes up a word that doesn't exist in Polish - przhesna. The closest word to this is przestan (przhestain) which means "stop it".

There are certainly many Polish actors who could have played the role.

The only upside - very good-looking.

[paradox_error]

Posted: 6/1/05 at 4:19pm

And interestingly, the title in Polish is Lawendowe z Gorze, or Lavender Hills...

[Marquise]

Posted: 6/1/05 at 4:32pm

I'd rather see them in "B!tches in Black"

[paradox_error]

Posted: 6/2/05 at 9:47am

Surely this film deserves more discussion than 15 posts...

[paradox_error]

Posted: 6/2/05 at 10:25am

And what did everyone think of that scene where he's naked?

[Gothampc]

Posted: 6/2/05 at 12:02pm

***Spoiler Alert***

I think that some of the movie had some threads that were left undone. Remember when he went to the festival and that guy started to beat him up. That was a moment that should have been cut from the film. It came out of nowhere and went nowhere.

[paradox_error]

Posted: 6/2/05 at 12:05pm

I absolutely agree.

And while I thought that the acting in the film was quite stunning, the movie itself didn't seem to have much point.

And I would love to know what a phenomenal Polish musician was doing in a boat on the coast of England. They never seemed to explain it...

Posted: 6/2/05 at 2:30pm

I don't think it needed explaining. The movie isn't about how Andrea ended up on the coast, but his impact on Ursula. That's all I cared about.

And yeah, I agree with the semi fight/piss scene.

I need to find the story its based on.