Production Year: 1997 - Drama - Director: Gillian Armstrong - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, Ciaran Hinds, Tom Wilkinson, Richard Roxburgh
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Advantages: quite an interesting plot Disadvantages: plots a bit slow in places
I was looking forward to watching CharlotteGray. It was a film I?d wanted to see at the cinema, but hadn?t got round to. I ended up disappointed by it. It wasn?t truly awful I was able to watch it without thinking ?god when is this going to end?. It was just not as good as I thought it would be.
It?s hard to think what went wrong with it. It?s got all the ingredients for a good film: wartime drama, love interest, secret missions. However, it was strangely flat in a lot of places.
CharlotteGray (Cate Blanchet) is a young scottish woman working at a surgery in wartime London. Whilst returning to London from a holiday in Scotland a ?civil servant/spy master? spots her reading a French book, it turns out that she studied in France. He invites her to a book launch where she meets and falls in love with Peter, an RAF airman.
She is ...
Advantages: Basically a good script, cinematography Disadvantages: Mostly everything else
You are sitting at home with bad weather outside and a film comes on that you don?t normally watch. What do you do hotshot? What do you do?
In my case, I unfortunately took the gamble and watched the movie. It is based on the novel by Sebastian Faulks and is a ?thriller? that follows the adventures of our eponymous heroine CharlotteGray ( Cate Blanchett ) in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. It should tell of heroism ( or in this case mostly heroinism ), the dangers of war, love, self sacrifice etc etc but ends up being a blank, dull, grey canvas that?s not fully filled. The plot should have been able to support the film, as at its core, there is a good story there.
On travelling to London, Gray meets someone on a train and an innocent conversation strikes up during which she reveals she is fluent in French ...
Advantages: Interesting take on the ordinary lives of people during WW2 Disadvantages: Changes in accents make it difficult to follow at times
When CharlotteGray meets and falls in love with a young airman, Peter, she should have her entire life to look forward to. However, it is World War 2 and her fiance very soon goes to France on a mission and goes missing. Determined not to give up hope, Charlotte applies for the Secret Service and is sent to France herself; ostensibly to help the war effort, but also to try and find out what has happened to Peter. Will her personal feelings get in the way of her job, putting her colleagues lives at risk? And will she find Peter?
Knowing that this film is based on the book of the same name by Sebastian Faulks should have encouraged me to watch this film sooner, but somehow, I have never been able to bring myself to watch it until now. I think it is partly because war stories depress me and I need to be in the right frame of mind ...
In 'Charlotte Gray', which is based on the novel by Sebastien Faulks, we hear the story of Charlotte who falls in love with an RAF pilot named Peter. Peter is dispatched on a mission to France and disappears, Charlotte is distraught and sets out to find him. 'Land Girls' tells of the Women's Land Army which is called in to help out whilst the men fight in the Second World War. Three such women, from very different backgrounds, converge on an isolated farm in Dorset.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
CINEMA CLUB; SONY DADC
Release date
03/05/2004
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
CCD 30057
Barcode
5014138300579
Languages
Main Language
English
DVD Description
Two movies celebrating the crucial roles women played in the second World War. CHARLOTTE GRAY is a love story set in beautiful scenery played by an all-star cast. Here, Charlotte Gray (Cate Blanchett) is a Scottish woman in mid-WWII, living with an adventuresome pair of young female roommates. While attending a snooty book publishing party, Charlotte escapes from her girlfriends long enough to meet a British pilot, Peter with whom she falls in love. After a brief but passionate affair, Peter is sent on a mission to Nazi-occupied France where his plane is shot down... THE LAND GIRLS: It's 1941. World War II continues to rage across Europe. The young men of England have been called to the front to fight. So, back at home, a new regiment is formed, and an army of England's young women are dispatched across the countryside to pick up the slack. Collectively known as "The Land Girls," three beautiful women (McCormack, Weisz, and Friel) answer the call, arriving at a farm in Dorset, where they meet handsome and volatile Joe (Mackintosh). Tragedy and passion is revealed as the girls form close friendships with each other and with Joe.
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