Given how many of Kristin Scott Thomas\u2019 on-screen characters could kill you with a single withering look, it\u2019s perhaps a surprise that her screenwriting and directorial debut is a gentle and cosy affair, about a middle-class British family working through their emotional hang-ups. Think chintzy cottage, idyllic streams and enviable day dresses and you\u2019re halfway there. What\u2019s less surprising is the quality of performance and self-assurance on display.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/p>\n There\u2019s a sense of real feeling to Scott Thomas\u2019 work here. Written with her journalist husband John Micklethwait, this was inspired by elements of Scott Thomas’ own life. She lost both her pilot father and later her pilot stepfather to plane crashes in early life, at a time when she was old enough to remember both tragedies. While she had made short animations for her younger brothers about their missing fathers, she wanted here to explore the experiences of three children shaped in contrasting ways by the same events, which not all of them remember in the same way. It’s an ambitious undertaking, an attempt to examine all three women\u2019s lives, marriages and approaches to motherhood, as well as their own mother\u2019s response. It can’t quite drill down into all those elements sufficiently deeply, but what’s here is beautifully played.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n It can’t quite drill down into all those elements sufficiently deeply, but what’s here is beautifully played.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n Naturally given her reputation, Scott Thomas was able to assemble a superb cast. She enlisted her Four Weddings And A Funeral<\/em> brother, James Fleet, as her fianc\u00e9 Geoff, and her Horse Whisperer<\/em> daughter Scarlett Johansson (with a solid English accent) as her oldest and most tightly wound daughter, Katherine, who\u2019s about to become the Royal Navy\u2019s first female aircraft carrier captain. Sienna Miller is the movie-star middle-child Victoria, and Emily Beecham the youngest and most stay-at-home, Georgina, an NHS nurse. Over the course of a few days, they must all face blockages in their lives, and hopefully find a way to move forward.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n There are a few awkward shifts of tone, a few too-obvious tells (Saltburn<\/em>‘s Joshua McGuire, as Georgina\u2019s husband, is so often cast as a buffoon that there are no surprises to his storyline), and one satisfying but arguably too-pat mother-solves-it-all scene with the sisters. Still, the cast deliver enough substance, with enough nuance, to carry it off, and create something as charming and evidently loved as their country-cottage setting.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/div>\n It’s an effectively made, beautifully acted piece, but as with many family dramas, much of this could have been sorted out if a few confidences had been shared a few decades earlier.\u202f<\/p>\n As their mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) prepares for her third wedding after two husbands died young, three sisters (Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller, Emily Beecham) reunite and share long-buried family secrets. Given how many of Kristin Scott Thomas\u2019 on-screen characters could kill you with a single withering look, it\u2019s perhaps a surprise that her screenwriting and directorial debut is a gentle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-47"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10028,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10026\/revisions\/10028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n