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These beginning scenes displaying the conventions of British society and the conversations between Dench and her upper crust English friends are the movie’s greatest (if only) pleasure; they serve as a self-referential acknowledgement of the Brits?? own absurdity. Though a comedy of British manners is not new ground, it is wonderful to see Dench and her contemporaries do what they do best...
...have the option here of not boozing every day, when such temperance is sadly lacking at English universities.) But there are other times when I feel like strangling the “funny” guy in my entryway who asks what I think the “Brits?? will do without “the Queen Mum” or like stabbing my Oxford friend who wants to know whether “all Americans really claim to have seen UFOs.” Often the mere presence of someone from another country makes people ask questions...
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