Word: gosford
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...strangers--she's had critics scrambling for words like luminous. Yet her charms have never been employed for big-budget Hollywood movies, despite an illustrious resume that includes 1998's Hilary and Jackie (for which she received a second Oscar nomination) and a juicy bit in last year's Gosford Park as a rough-edged servant who drops her knickers for the master of the house...
...confidence in Possession's period scenes. For here the film goes persuasively old-fashioned, with a train-station declaration of love, a deathbed revelation and some dirty digging in a cemetery. And the actors are fully alive to the inherent romance. Northam, as in The Winslow Boy and Gosford Park, so easily embodies Randolph's upper-class elegance that you might never know it had gone out of style. Ehle, the most beguiling of young Brit actresses, uses her tight smile to convey the pained radiance in Christabel's wisdom. These actor-poets make love like chamber music--two cellos...
...escape? Will he get his revenge? It's an old story--The Count of Monte Cristo by way of TV's The Prisoner--but Fry (who played the pompous detective in Gosford Park) has the wit and erudition to make it run like a well-made pocket watch. Be warned: the vengeance promised by the title has an unabashedly nasty flavor that's distinctly British and quite refreshing compared with our more Puritanical American brand...
...agreed. An article in the left-leaning Guardian suggested that there was more ambivalence toward the event than generally acknowledged and said that if traditionalists mourned the death of a lady who embodied a long-gone Gosford Park era, young Britons felt far less emotional attachment to royalty and progressive folk did not miss those deference-filled times at all. An editorial in the newspaper meanwhile claimed the nation had created an "idealized image" of the Queen Mother, who after all had lived "a life of anachronistic extravagance" - and enjoyed her tipple...
...Number of those that involve untimely death (murder in Gosford Park, above, and In the Bedroom, sword fights in Lord of the Rings and disease in Moulin Rouge...