A professionally produced film with triumphs about real people, it attracts your interest and reminds you of things other than vampires, zombies and idiot jokes and mid-summer is hard to find. A friendly, heartfelt little movie called My mother’s wedding It is a pleasant exception. There are about three sisters who reluctantly return to their childhood home in rural England to become bridesmaids at their third wedding of the widow’s mother. The sisters have their own questions and agendas, and are Georgina (Emily Beecham), the youngest hospital nurse; Victoria (gorgeous Sienna Miller), who became an actress in the United States. The eldest son, Catherine (Scarlett Johansson), played a major role in the growth of the two sisters, and they were dissatisfied with this. Their mother is charming Diana, played by the still beautiful Kristin Scott Thomas, who is constantly troubled by her all kinds of children, grandchildren and female friends, not to mention their various fathers and lovers, who have all disappointed her in different ways over the years. (Ms. Thomas is also the director of the film and co-wrote the script with John Micklethwait.)
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My mother’s wedding ★★★ (3/4 stars) |
This is something many characters can get used to, but the performance is so clearly described that it quickly becomes familiar. (By the way, it’s nice to see Ms. Thomas play a modern role with a modern hairstyle and hips, recognizable boutique costume. She’s more beautiful than the period costumes of the formal characters she usually plays.)
Everyone seemed compatible at the garden party dinner after the ceremony, but the tension didn’t surface for long. Two of the sisters have children who are deeply disturbed and unable to cope with. It turns out that Scarlett Johansson’s Katherine is a lesbian whose girlfriend admits to being pregnant and wants her lover to give her last name to her unborn child. This puts the decorative military hero in a stressful dilemma, as her final pass to be the first woman to command a ship in the Royal Navy on the day Catherine was named and celebrated, and the whole family watched her do so.
Even though I liked the movie, I found it lacked beats. (It’s actually a few beats.) The actors are all very good, but I don’t always feel narrative credulous, and I groaned, I groaned, I groaned, I groaned, I groaned, I groaned, I groaned in a final analysis when the mother finally announced in a final analysis “Let your child go, focus on the child and focus on the child.” Nevertheless, considering the rest of the summer, My mother’s wedding It’s hardly a waste of time. On an otherwise grim summer, it is closely related to air conditioning.
