Miss Mary (1986)
Country: ARG
Technical: col 110m
Director: Maria Luisa Bemberg
Cast: Julie Christie, Nacha Guevara, Eduardo Pavlovsky
Synopsis:
Experiences and recollections of a British governess in Argentina from 1930 to 1945.
Review:
A meticulously made and interlocked impression of an era through the eyes of an outsider, of all the more interest since its subject is a country seldom explored in the cinema. Most surprising is the discovery that the well-to-do Argentinians spoke English amongst themselves even. Christie is fine and comes into her own in the moving scene where she crumbles in the face of the boy's advances. Altogether a beautifully understated critique of an age; comparison with August's The House of the Spirits yields fully in the present film's favour.
Country: ARG
Technical: col 110m
Director: Maria Luisa Bemberg
Cast: Julie Christie, Nacha Guevara, Eduardo Pavlovsky
Synopsis:
Experiences and recollections of a British governess in Argentina from 1930 to 1945.
Review:
A meticulously made and interlocked impression of an era through the eyes of an outsider, of all the more interest since its subject is a country seldom explored in the cinema. Most surprising is the discovery that the well-to-do Argentinians spoke English amongst themselves even. Christie is fine and comes into her own in the moving scene where she crumbles in the face of the boy's advances. Altogether a beautifully understated critique of an age; comparison with August's The House of the Spirits yields fully in the present film's favour.
Country: ARG
Technical: col 110m
Director: Maria Luisa Bemberg
Cast: Julie Christie, Nacha Guevara, Eduardo Pavlovsky
Synopsis:
Experiences and recollections of a British governess in Argentina from 1930 to 1945.
Review:
A meticulously made and interlocked impression of an era through the eyes of an outsider, of all the more interest since its subject is a country seldom explored in the cinema. Most surprising is the discovery that the well-to-do Argentinians spoke English amongst themselves even. Christie is fine and comes into her own in the moving scene where she crumbles in the face of the boy's advances. Altogether a beautifully understated critique of an age; comparison with August's The House of the Spirits yields fully in the present film's favour.