11528 "A Good Woman" (BBC 1 Just started)

The film has just started on BBC 1 and is set on the Amalfi coast. - Enjoy

A Good Woman
Sunday 25 January
10:50pm - 12:15am
BBC1

After the weighty English Civil War drama To Kill a King, director Mike Barker lets his hair down here with this light and sunny period romantic comedy. In a novel take on a classic Victorian play, Oscar Wilde's waspish morality tale Lady Windermere's Fan gets both a fresh 1930s setting and a significant US slant. Mark Umbers and a stilted Scarlett Johansson play American newlyweds Meg and Robert Windermere, who set society tongues wagging in a resort on Italy's beautiful Amalfi coast when Robert is spotted apparently becoming intimate with notorious New York gold-digger Mrs Erlynne (Helen Hunt). The intricate web of secrets and lies that emerges as the scandal spreads is a tad contrived but it's still a highly agreeable movie, thanks to delicious dialogue and some spirited performances. Though the focus is on the glamorous American leads, it's the British thespians who give life to this sophisticated film, with Tom Wilkinson's ageing millionaire bachelor enjoying the best lines.

Category
General chat about Italy

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 01/25/2009 - 18:38

Just before that programme started I watched Julie Walters in A Short Stay in Switzerland.

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Is there [I]nothing[/I] this actress can't do? Her performance in this tragic story was incredible. I was reduced to tears throughout. The subject matter was so current and thought provoking. It has - of course - been discussed so much recently. Everyone as their own thoughts on the rights and the wrongs of such actions, but when you sit and watch such a moving portrayal of the actual details of what it 'could' be like - it makes you think.

Supposing it was me - or one of mine? What would I do - how would I behave?
Well I DO know, but I wonder how many others have gone so far as to come to terms with what they might do...

Though a bit different, on a local (Italian) front it now seems that a clinic in Piemonte is willing to help Eulana - 17 years in a coma - too... I do so hope they will!

[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2]N:B: Eulana Englaro was 16 when she was involved in a car crash in 1992. The impact smashed her skull and broke her neck. Although the doctors doubted she would survive, within three months she was breathing on her own.[/SIZE][/FONT]

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 01/25/2009 - 18:50

As I am not at home I couldn't watch either but I do have "A Good Woman" on DVD and love it. As for "A Short Stay in Switzerland" the other half just told me how marvellous and moving it was and I'm sorry he didn't record it for me. :frown:
Oh well, I'll look forward to the repeat then if look forward is the right term in this case.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 01/26/2009 - 03:12

[quote=Carole B;109134]Just before that programme started I watched Julie Walters in A Short Stay in Switzerland.

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Is there [I]nothing[/I] this actress can't do? Her performance in this tragic story was incredible. .........[/quote]

For those of a 'certain age' - Julie Waters was as good as Patricia Hayes in 'Edna The Inebriate Woman' - i.e. superb!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 01/26/2009 - 12:58

[quote=alan h;109145]For those of a 'certain age' - Julie Waters was as good as Patricia Hayes in 'Edna The Inebriate Woman' - i.e. superb![/quote]

I don't remember that one Alan - though I'm sure I fall into that 'certain age' category...

Aren't we lucky to have [I]so many[/I] wonderful actresses to listen to and see?

You may remember the Talking Heads series by Alan Bennett... they were wonderfully poignant too.

Anyone remember this one by Thora Hird (this is just Part One from You Tube) but it's a great 'lead-in' to what is a wonderful monologue

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