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Jul 31, 2020 · Alice being shut out when Vera visits her ailing mother. Alice and Vera coming to terms that It Just Won’t Work. When Alice finally loosens up enough with Frank to play for him one of the phonograph records the couple loved, she tells Frank the record was gifted to her “by a friend.” “Was she the one you loved,” Frank asks. Like I say ...
Jul 27, 2020 · Summerland also features some good supporting performances through Dixie Egerickx as Frank's friend Edie and Tom Courtenay as the local school's headmaster Mr. Sullivan. Still, though, Summerland is very much Alice and Frank's story. Watching the two grow closer is undoubtedly the sweetest part of the film, especially because their relationship ...
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- Rachel Labonte
Jul 31, 2020 · Poo-Review Ratings. 2020 is far from perfect. The world seems to be going in always more chaotic directions, with no sign of ever slowing down. And in a time in which the thoughts of enchanting strolls on the beach seem like a fairy tale of old, Jessica Swale’s first full-length film, Summerland, is a much-needed reminder that more whimsical ...
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- Jessica Swale
A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.
Named after the Celtic concept of heaven, Summerland is a rare queer period drama that feels hopeful rather than despairing. The film takes us to the countryside in World War II, where our protagonist, the reclusive writer Alice Lamb (Gemma Arterton), studies the folklore about Summerland. We know that her isolation wasn’t fully chosen; her ...
- Amanda Lawrence
- Female Director, Jessica Swale
Summerland is a 2020 British drama film written and directed by Jessica Swale, starring Gemma Arterton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Lucas Bond, Dixie Egerickx, Siân Phillips, Penelope Wilton and Tom Courtenay. Arterton plays a reclusive writer forced to take in a young boy entrusted to her care during the Battle of Britain in 1940, and, later, during the early days of the London Blitz .
Jul 28, 2020 · Summerland marks the feature debut of writer-director Jessica Swale, a woman with an impressive CV of stage work and the hilarious viral video Leading Lady Parts in 2018. Its chocolate-box imagery ...
