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The film stars Alicia Vikander as Vera Brittain, an independent young woman who abandoned her studies at Somerville College, Oxford, to become a war nurse. [4] The film was directed by James Kent and written by Juliette Towhidi.
Jun 5, 2015 · In turning the material into a two-hour movie, screenwriter Juliette Towhidi understandably elected to sacrifice some of the book’s expansiveness by focusing on events leading up to the war and the war itself, giving only a glimpse of Brittain’s activities as an ardent pacifist afterwards.
Nov 19, 2015 · She desperately wants a higher education and to go to university. There were far few universities in those days, so Oxford was her goal. She has a very close relationship with her brother Edward, and then meets his close friend from school, Roland Leighton. They unexpectedly fall in love.
Jan 13, 2015 · James Kent and Juliette Towhidi’s adaptation of Vera Brittain’s doorstop of a memoir Testament of Youth standing alone as the most high profile WW1 film of the year.
Interview with Juliette Towhidi, who as adapted Death Comes To Pemberley for BBC One from PD James' bestselling novel. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a producer in possession of...
Juliette Towhidi is known for Calendar Girls (2003), Testament of Youth (2014) and Love, Rosie (2014).
by Juliette Towhidi (based on the memoir by Vera Brittain) Vera Brittain, irrepressible, intelligent and free-minded, overcomes the prejudices of her family and hometown to win a scholarship to...
