Word: goddens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Loss of Innocence. A careful adaptation of Rumer Godden's The Greengage Summer evokes with irony and passion all the charm of a young girl's growing...
Loss of Innocence. A careful adaptation of Rumer Godden's The Greengage Summer evokes with irony and passion all the charm of a young girl's growing...
Loss of Innocence. The mood and melodrama of bittersweet 16 are evoked with irony and charm in this British adaptation of Rumer Godden's thriller of sensibility, The Greengage Summer...
Loss of Innocence. The mood and melodrama of bittersweet 16 are evoked with irony and charm in this British adaptation of Rumer Godden's thriller of sensibility, The Greengage Summer...
...feminine mysteries are essentially inexpressible, and writers who try to express them slip generally into soap opera or a sort of exquisite silliness. Author Godden does neither, and in this film, which clings to her theme and hues to her mood as the clear peel colors and cleaves to a plum, the camera seems at moments to enlarge and lay bare on the screen the inmost, intimate mystery of maturation. Too often the view is obscured by the arabesques of an intricate and suspensefully entertaining plot, but often enough the onlooker is left quietly alone with Actress York...