Monday, 5 January 2015

Capturing Mary (2007 Stephen Poliakoff & scr)

Set in one of those incredible properties that Poliakoff finds all over the place (in fact the outside of The Naval Club, 38 Hill Street Mayfair and the inside of Langley Park House near Slough), film has Maggie Smith tell house custodian Danny Lee Wynter about her life in the fifties, where she's played by Ruth Wilson, and her unfortunate encounter with David Walliams.

Like all Poliakoffs it reels you in, though I found it a little bit more murky than usual, and perhaps overweight.

It was Gemma Arterton's debut.

Music Adrian Johnston, editing Clare Douglas and Tom Kinnersly, shot by Danny Cohen.


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