Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before John Morgan's (Tim McInnerney) bloody mess demands any attention, the brewing uncertainty and turbulence here remains neatly capped beneath the calm British exteriors. Jean Travers (Vanessa Redgrave) is a well-liked schoolteacher who has a number of close friends and a lovely Yorkshire cottage. There certainly are hints of loneliness beneath the cheerfulness, but it takes Morgan's suicide to knock loose her stifled memories...
From that moment, the film fragments and divides into three plots: the past (in which a young twenty-ish Jean--played by Redgrave's daughter Joely Richardson--soars through her first and most powerful romance); dinner-party flashbacks that might lead to some explanation of Morgan's mess; and the present--we see Jean coming to grips with why he "did it" to her as well as some impressively incisive glimpses into the lives of several of Jean's new acquaintances...
...been at least a decade since her last one--because this performance is such a revelation. The depth Redgrave gives her character makes every move convincing, as when Jean risks making a similar "mistake" by letting another stranger into her life, this time a girl named Karen with whom Morgan had become obsessed. Suzanna Hamilton plays this variably vacant, furious, and wise creature with uncanny control. The police officer (Stuart Wilson) gets the best lines in Wetherby as consolation for losing his girlfriend to her ex-husband ("He's an awful man...the kind that keeps sheep.") "Peripheral" characters...
...that, as Jean states so simply, "Life is dangerous...And sometimes there's nothing you can do." In much of his writing, Hare catches and ponders all the disturbing signs, the unfocused anger of English life. But thankfully he doesn't really try to explain the enigma of John Morgan when he's actually much better at capturing these other lives, the less literally bloody lives containing repressed sensibilities, inarticulated needs or, yes, measured contentment and hope...
...TIME board cautioned, however, that the bloated trade deficit cannot be completely closed in the foreseeable future, so imports will continue to dampen growth. "The pillars of our export strength are badly eroded," said Rimmer de Vries, chief international economist for Morgan Guaranty Trust. He noted that the U.S. is losing some of its foreign farm sales because output abroad is up sharply. Concurred Robert Hormats, a vice president of the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs and a guest at last week's meeting: "Europe is exporting poultry, beef and all the things we sold them...