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Ladies In Lavender [VHS] [2004]
	Director: Charles Dance Actors: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Natascha McElhone, Daniel Bruhl Studio: Entertainment in Video Category: Video List Price: ~~£9.99~~ Buy Used: £0.01 as of 8/9/2010 03:54 CST details You Save: £9.98 (100%) Qty In Stock New (4) Used (23) Collectible (1) from £0.01 Seller: grabmore Rating: 67 reviews Sales Rank: 1,802 Format: Colour, PAL Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over Media: VHS Tape Number Of Items: 1 Running Time: 100 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4 Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1 EAN: 5017239115202 Theatrical Release Date: 2004 Release Date: February 28, 2005 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review Ladies in Lavender is exactly the sort of film that prompts people to question, "Why don't they make films like this anymore?" It's a delicately-paced story of two aging sisters--Ursula (Dame Judi Dench) and Janet (Maggie Smith--who live together on a Cornwall beach in 1936. They discover a foreign stranger washed ashore (Daniel Bruhl), and while nursing him back to health make an astonishing discovery: the young man, a Pole, is a phenomenally gifted violinist. And Ursula finds her feelings for the man go far deeper than merely maternal. Writer and director Charles Dance has crafted an admirable debut. Ladies in Lavender a tenderly done and bittersweet story of innocence and regret. Though the dialogue sometimes seems too earnest, and he has an over-reliance on slow motion cinematography, he still allows his two talented leads enough time and space to shine. It's only unfortunate that more effort did not go into the DVD release of the film: the extras only consist of soundbites from the cast and crew, which add little insight. --Ted Kord

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 67 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...14 Next » worth watching for the starring performances September 3, 2010 M. A. Hewings (Solihull UK) The Dames (Judi Dench and Maggie Smith) are brilliant, as always. Worth watching just for their performances though the story, could have benefited from a more in depth.(i.e. longer) telling. Excellent and exceptional story May 27, 2010 P. M. R. Gibson (UK) I cannot rate this video too highly. An unusual story beautifully presented and with Judi Dench and Maggie Smith what else can you say. Perfect. Great acting,amazing music May 23, 2010 producerpatricia (UK) Agree with others about the story being great and the cast superb, Judy Dench and Maggie Smith never disappoint, and Daniel is amazing...he apparently learnt how to 'play' the violin so well he impressed his tutor...but for me the double bonus was being introduced to the wonderful violin playing of Joshua Bell...so sensitive, so beautiful. Get the CD soundtrack also, it's great..and I now have a wider collection of Joshua Bell CDs. Buy on Amazon!!Hess - Ladies In LavenderThe Romance of the ViolinJoshua Bell - Voice of the Violin Hardening the film arteries March 15, 2010 Peter Scott-presland (London) 1 out of 4 found this review helpful "Ladies in Lavender" epitomises everything which is wrong with the British film industry - the obsessions with Heritage, the snobbery, the wordiness, the emotional stuntedness, the hobbling influence of theatre and the irredemiably small-scale and anti-visual values. The tale of two spinsters who take in a Polish sailor washed up on their local Cornish beach - we never learn why - is utterly predictable. From the moment we first see Andrea's handsome face, we know that Judi Dench will fall in love with him (because she's the cuddly one) and Maggie Smith will have to pick up the pieces (because she's the stringy one). We also know that no good will come of it, because this is a safe unchallenging piece which certainly won't go into the area of sexuality where older women have satisfying relationships with younger men. It's snobbish because only middle class people are allowed to have relationships or feelings. In addition to the sisters there's a local doctor lusting after an implausible visiting German lady. The locals are colourful and comic background, and the major representative of the working class, the housekeeper Dorcas (Miriam Margolyes) is a stereotypical heart of gold who knows her place and only has affections for her mistress. The stuntedness is the subject of the movie, but also characterises the treatment. We all know that the English are sexually repressed, and there have been so many stiff-upper-lip movies from "Brief Encounter" onwards that you really have to ask whether we need another one. It's telling that the one moment of genuine emotion comes not from dialogue, character or image, but from the swooning cod-romantic violin concerto which Andrea gets to play in London when he escapes elderly clutches (only one of numerous improbabilities). Isn't there another way we can get cinematically into this psychic terrain if we really have to? I suppose what I'm asking is, where's the English Bunuel when you need him? This is a comfy cardigan of a movie, nothing to move you too much, nothing to put you off, a little patronising chuckle here, an "aw!" there. Everyone acts competently, but it's the kind of stuff Dench, Smith and Margolyes can perform in their sleep, and here they do. Only David Warner as the lonely local doctor really convinces. heart waming, a real british gem January 19, 2010 1 out of 1 found this review helpful very good film Cornwall 1936 remains as ever a timeless place. sisters, janet and ursula widdington discover a castaway one the beach below their house with the help of the local doctor they nurse him back to health. During his convalescence th sisiters discoer his talent as a musician and the unsettling efect he has on them both- especially urula whose life will bever be the same again... Showing reviews 1-5 of 67 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...14 Next »

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