- Actors: Mona Washbourne, Glenda Jackson, Trevor Howard
- Directors: Robert Enders
- Producers: Robert Enders
- Format: PAL
- Language English
- Classification: 15
- Studio: Samuel Goldwyn
- Run Time: 102 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000KEBCP8
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,878 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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This movie portrays British poet/author Stevie Smith (Glenda Jackson) and her life with her beloved aunt (Mona Washbourne) through direct dialogue with the audience by Stevie, as well as flashbacks, and narration by a friend (Trevor Howard). The movie mainly focuses on her relationship with her aunt, romantic relationships of the past, and the fame she received late in her life.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
This video is an old favourite so it was really great to be able to see it again. The production is very well costructed and gives one a good introduction into Stevie Smith's work as well as a good understanding of her biographgy. Glenda Jackson is great as Stevie and portrays a clever, eccentric woman, who appears fairly conservative on the outside. She is just the type I love, which is a wacky, closet eccentric, dressed up in conservative costume. Mona Washborne is the epitome of a comforting, staid, steady English, lower middle class mothering aunt, who somehow in some odd sort of way reminds me of my own mother. Hence this production also delivers a certain amount of comforting, sentimental ethos for me personally. Trevor Howard in the role of narrator does an excellent job,and I think his part is well placed and handled in the construction of the story line. However there is also a dark, somber, somewhat depressing aspect to the story which weaves in and out, with for example the attempted suicide, and the Aunt's declining health. These things are down played and understated in the typical British way, nevertheless adding a kind of 'danse macbre' to lend the depth and complexity of realism to a well written and presented story.
Most of the action takes place in the entrance hall and 3 rooms within the Avondale Road house in which Stevie and her 'lion aunt' lived. with a very few brief external shots of other locations. Yet the viewer's attention is held and one is given the opportunity of creating in one's own imagination easily other settings so well described by Stevie. For example her description of receiving a medal from the Queen conjures up a clear picture inside one's head of the event as if one were actually witnessing it. It is so refreshing to be credited as the audience with sufficient intelligence and imagination to be required to do this, in contrast with most over explicit movies who obviously expect to play to moranic masses.
Most of the action takes place in the entrance hall and 3 rooms within the Avondale Road house in which Stevie and her 'lion aunt' lived. with a very few brief external shots of other locations. Yet the viewer's attention is held and one is given the opportunity of creating in one's own imagination easily other settings so well described by Stevie. For example her description of receiving a medal from the Queen conjures up a clear picture inside one's head of the event as if one were actually witnessing it. It is so refreshing to be credited as the audience with sufficient intelligence and imagination to be required to do this, in contrast with most over explicit movies who obviously expect to play to moranic masses.
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This was a very moving portrayal of the life of Stevie Smith. Both Glenda Jackson & Mona Washborne were excellent. Glenda Jackson brought new insight into some of the poems by Stevie Smith which she recited in the film. A wonderful film. I wish they would release it on DVD.
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