(ANSA) - ROME, APRIL 26 - There is something reassuring that the group of nobles and butlers who live in the Victorian castle of Highclere in Hampshire, less than an hour from London, are able to communicate, whether it is the cult series or the cinema version -Downton Abbey 2: A new era arrives in theaters on April 28 with Universal - and it's not just for the magnificent view of the English countryside or for that immense library or for the make-up and wigs that take us back to the late 1920s.
There is a mix of feelings and irony, of high and low, joy and sadness, good taste, education, not without very human intrigues and subterfuges, there is always balance and at the bottom a sort of model of civil coexistence that today more than ever seems to us meta reachable.
It is Julian Fellowes' magic touch, the
Fellowes is back on track in the long-awaited second film dedicated to the mythical extended Grantham clan directed by Simon Curtis.
Says Fellowes: "I want people to watch Downtone and enjoy it. I also hope that every so often we get to think about the disparity of backgrounds in an egalitarian society, or the difficulty of being homosexual in a time when it was still illegal. topics but they are not the main purpose of the film. The purpose of the film is to give the audience a nice evening. "
The film, in cinemas from April 28, begins with the wedding of Tom Branson (Allen Leech) and Miss Lucy Smith (Tuppence Middleton), daughter of Maud, Lady Bagshaw (Imelda Staunton): it is 1928 and the whole family reunites for the occasion and the Downton Abbey service.
Since her health has deteriorated, the Countess Mother (Maggie Smith), the widow Crawley, has moved back to the castle.
Violet has inherited a village in the south of France which, in turn, wants to leave an inheritance to Sybbie, the daughter of Lady Sybil and Branson.
Who is the defunct Marquis of Montmirail?
And why did he leave such a generous gift to the Countess Mother?
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