"Ladies in Lavender" (2004) - Drama
Rating: PG-13
Starring: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Natascha McElhone.
Rating: 5 stars
In this gem of a film, the quiet and uneventful existence of two elderly sisters (Dench and Smith) is changed forever when they find a young man unconscious on the beach by their Cornwall house. While nursing the charming foreigner back to health, their lives become entwined as they piece together the mystery of his identity, and the tapestry of their personal destinies combines to create a final, beautiful work of art. Judi Dench and Maggie Smith are undoubtedly two giants of British cinema, and their interpretations are the very portrait of perfection. Daniel Bruhl plays the young man awash on the shore, and he is brilliant with a superb combination of soulfulness and boyish charm. Each and every actor is perfectly cast, and the movie is an ethereal experience, with breathtaking vistas of gorgeous Cornwall. This utterly sensitive story portrays the richness that is found in the sheer simplicity of life: that each one of us in connected in a sublime collection of interwoven paths, all leading to an essential purpose.
"Ladies in Lavender" (2004) - Drama