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This very colorful and beautifully shot shocking movie takes place almost entirely in and on the grounds of a Victorian English country manor house. A large family inhabits it, along with their many servants. They are visited at the outset by a dour Scot who has just spent 10 years in the Amazon basin ("the Amazons") studying flora and fauna, particularly insects. In a shipwreck we don't see he has lost his entire collection and writings, save for one very rare mounted butterfly, which he presents to the patriarch, who hies him to organize his own mounted insect collection.One thing leads to another and the entymologist ends up marrying one of the daughters, although not the plain one who secretly loves him.
The entire family resembles an insect colony, complete with the queen
and workers. After the couple have five children, including two sets of twins, a shocking discovery is made by the Scotsman, one I was surprised at until I thought about how many clues are given the veiwer along the way.An alomost unrecognizable Kristin Scott Thomas plays the plain sister.
Highly reommended and very enjoyable. Not for kids.
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It's been a couple years since I've seen this movei based on the A.S. Batt novel but...Kristen Scott Thomas plays the family's governess, not one of the daughters.
The hero's not really what I'd call dour (just a bit reserved and brainy, which is not the same thing at all, and besides he's Welch (as is the actor playing him).
I don't remember the ill-fated union producing anything like 5 kides. (I think it was a singleton and one set of twins.)
But A&I is a nicely done, intelligent and rather subtle period film. I have it on DVD.
1. He calls the Thomas character a "tutor" but I stand corrected.2. He also calls the entymologist a "dour Scot". Maybe they changed
the character for the film.3. I distinctly remember three births, the first twins, the second
one baby, and the third twins again. Maybe I was dozing...
Keyboard is dying. Byatt BYatt!!!!Welsh Welsh welsh not welch!
I didn't find the film particularly interesting overall - I thought it was one of those films you forget rather quickly. But I did find Thomas memorable... then again, I have weak spot for her.
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With a very large clue in the form of an anagram in the title.John K.
Which is briefly shown in the word game toward the end.
I haven't seen it since it was in theaters, and while it didn't make much of an impression on me, that was then and my tastes of changed some since. Anyway, what I do find interesting about that film is how it was affected by the U.S. ratings system. As I recall, rather than accept the distribution-killing and content-belying NC-17 rating with which it got hit due to the brief glimpse it offers of a semi-erect penis, it had to settle for an NR, which I suspect didn't help it on the distribution front much either.
... sounds fascinating... I will definitely check it outTim
... anthropological study to boot. It would seem we are not quite out of the jungle yet, eh?
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