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Express review: Mothering Sunday, bedroom with naked

2021-07-11T23:56:56.399Z


CRITICAL - Director Eva Husson's landmark film is an adaptation of Graham Swift's novel. At the end of the phone, a man's voice: " Sorry, madam, it's a mistake ." Jane just hung up. From the first images, we guess heavy secrets. It's 1924, in a Berkshire mansion. It's Mother's Day. As tradition dictates, the Niven will meet their neighbors for a picnic. Jane, their servant, gets on her bike to join Paul, one of the sons of the family. What happened to Eva Husson? The director, stuck


At the end of the phone, a man's voice: "

Sorry, madam, it's a mistake

."

Jane just hung up.

From the first images, we guess heavy secrets.

It's 1924, in a Berkshire mansion.

It's Mother's Day.

As tradition dictates, the Niven will meet their neighbors for a picnic.

Jane, their servant, gets on her bike to join Paul, one of the sons of the family.

What happened to Eva Husson?

The director, stuck in clichés in

Les Filles du soleil

(2018), is touched by grace.

We enter his film as in a painting.

Jane follows Paul to his room.

Everything is going slowly.

The light plays on her naked body.

She has the pallor of a Renoir model.

The Niven meet their friends at the water's edge.

There is champagne, silences, ladies in hats.

Paul is late.

He lights cigarette after cigarette.

He will marry Emma, ​​become a lawyer.

Left alone, Jane wanders around the house.

In a frame there are pictures of Paul as a child

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Source: lefigaro

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