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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0054961872596
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Acorn Media
Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Acorn Media
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Running Time: 158 minutes
Sales Rank: 8961
Studio: Acorn Media
Theatrical Release Date: 1986
Editorial Review:
Description:
The acclaimed BBC adaptation of Vita Sackville-West’s beloved novel starring Dame Wendy Hiller
Dame Wendy Hiller delivers a delicately nuanced performance in Vita Sackville-West’s classic story of emerging feminist identity in post-Victorian England.
'When can one please oneself if not in old age?' asks 85-year-old Lady Slane (Hiller), who frees herself from society’s expectations upon the death of her politically prominent husband. To the shock of her children, who seem more concerned with the disposition of the estate than with their mother’s happiness, the widow retreats to a cottage in the Hampstead countryside to rediscover herself.
Nominated for four BAFTA Awards (including best drama series and best actress), this BBC production brings Sackville-West’s best-known novel to the screen with all its emotional complexity, intellectual vigor, and profound feeling.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Worthwhile
I found this story absolutely superb: cast, locations and content were authentically presented; the acting was flawless. To those of us who especially appreciate that era of history, it was also instsructive. I am sure I will view it another 6 times!
Rating: - Profound and a gem of a film, with multiple facets, nuances and eternal sparkle
Wendy Hiller and Harry Andrews deliver haunting and very, very beautiful performances in this, one of the best films I have ever seen. It is all--every bit of it--utterly charming, provocative, true, beautiful, and brimming with life in every scene.
And the reviews that speak of Vita's feminism, though true, miss entirely the point that this film is as completely relevant socially, emotionally, and spiritually now as it was in Vita's 1930's.
The film is not glitzy, or fast, ... Read More
Rating: - Dame Wendy Hiller at Her Best!
Seniors are usually viewed as weak and fragile people, or eccentric if they are strong in our youth-oriented society. The fabulous Wendy Hiller portrays a strong-minded elderly Lady in this excellent TV mini-series, breaking the stereotype and showing that seniors have aspirations of their own like any other age groups. Enjoy her other Oscar winning films--Separate Tables and Pygmalion - Criterion Collection
Rating: - great acting
This is an exceptional piece on a woman finally exercising her own thoughts and desires at a time when women didn't have these choices.
Rating: - She considered the lilies of the field
Lady Slane (Wendy Hiller) spent all her life being an et ux. She enjoyed being the wife of the viceroy, a mother, and a leader of charities. However when her husband died she finally, against her children's wishes, had time to contemplate her life, what it could have been and what it will be.
She moves into a smaller house that she had seen 30 years before. Now she strikes up a friend ship with people as the house owner, the craftsman repairing the house and others.
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