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Jan 16, 1998 · Reviews. The Winter Guest. Drama. 110 minutes ‧ R ‧ 1998. Roger Ebert. January 16, 1998. 4 min read. Winter in Scotland is as muted as a wake. The country’s so far north, the sun is slow to rise and early to set, and a day can be blindingly bright or always seem like twilight.
In his debut as a director, British actor Alan Rickman has adapted Sharman Macdonald's play The Winter Guest for the screen. It is a quiet, quirky, and luminous film about one day in the lives of four sets of characters in a Scottish seaside town.
Poignant, melancholic yet uplifting little slice of life. I wasn't expecting much from this, if anything really but I was profoundly moved by the whole thing and I've come away with a new favourite Emma Thompson performance. It's magic. A gorgeous, underseen gem of a movie.
The film was met warmly by critics, with Thompson winning an award at the Venice Film Festival. It holds a 63% "Fresh" score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on 27 reviews with an average rating of 6.5/10. [5] In the United Kingdom, it grossed £250,689, [6] and a worldwide total of $1.3 million.
Sep 10, 2012 · Set against the snow, wind and ice-blasted landscape of a Fife fishing village, it follows and contrasts the diffident, often quarrelsome relationships of four pairs of characters - two teenage...
Movie Review By Andrea Chase. On a day so cold that the sea has frozen over, a woman with a fierce face, mink coat, and sensible shoes marches purposefully across the icy Scottish landscape on mission of life and death. Nearby, the object of that mission, her recently widowed daughter, Frances, sleeps fitfully, little realizing the adventures ...
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Unless you love depressing, slice-of-live British movies, you probably won't like The Winter Guest. Emma Thompson and her mother Phyllida Law play a bickering mother-daughter pair with deep seated issues that never get brought up or resolved.
