An orphaned girl discovers a magical garden hidden at her strict uncle’s estate. I was underwhelmed by The Secret Garden but not the secret garden. The film feels soulless, its magic and reality uneasy (flower)bedfellows; while the garden is a gorgeously tangled, artfully curated wilderness housing everything a child, kept captive by an adult world… The Secret Garden Read More
Viceroy’s House 3.5 stars
Gillian Anderson as Lady Mountbatten, last Vicereine of India, does that peculiar shoulder-slouching thing all through Viceroy’s House in the manner of members of the British upper classes who are rather embarrassed by their extreme privilege. This is not a criticism by the way – Anderson is brilliant as the terribly clipped, terribly rich Edwina who nonetheless genuinely tries… Viceroy’s House Read More