A British comedy starring Sebastian Koch (The Lives of Others) Marc-Andre Fleury Youth Jersey , Felicity Jones (The Tempest) and Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey) sees the great granddaughter of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle working as a cleaner at a family run hotel in an English seaside town. Her name is Emilia and she makes such an impression on the family that they invite her for dinner, where her unusual attitude to life and constant confidence and sarcasm have different effects on each family member, themselves a troubled lot.
Of course the father, Jonathon, wants to give her “writing lessons“ (yeah James Neal Youth Jersey , sure) and spend time with her. He’s a once successful writer who had a hit with his book The Cliff House, which brings-up in conversation at least ten times a day, to which his wife will point out that his follow-up, Mental Interiors, was a huge flop. Emilia sees right through him Alex Tuch Womens Jersey , but finds time to mess him around and flirt anyway. Beth, the daughter of the family is heading to Oxford Uni, but wants to rebel just a little before she starts a life of student bookwormship. She and Emilia become close, but the plot has a few tumbles in store for them (and there is a scene in which Beth tries smoking grass for the first time, guess whether or not she’ll cough a little and hand it back). The mother Nate Schmidt Womens Jersey , played with real zeal by Julia Ormond, hates Emilia right off, and with good cause really, a failed actress herself she sees exactly what this little tramp is up to, or at least thinks she does.
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It’s not a very taxing film, light hearted and fun is the order here, but it’s got good performances and direction of very decent quality William Karlsson Womens Jersey , there are laughs too brought forth mainly from Jonathon’s clumsy attempts at flirtation, and Emilia’s pithy one liners and scathing put downs. It’s not going to win any Oscars, but it won me over by the end and I have to admit I wasn’t confident going in that I’d enjoy it. Do yourself a favour and check this out if you get the chance.
Making its world premier at the EIFF 2011, Niall MacCormick’s coming-of-age comedy-drama Albatross is destined to be one of the most talked about and beloved British films of the year, not least because it balances feel-good laughs with pertinent issues for all ages. The film follows would-be writer Emelia (Jessica Brown Findlay) who takes a job as a cleaner in a seaside hotel owned by frustrated writer Jonathan (Sebastian Koch) and his family. She soon befriends his daughter David Perron Womens Jersey , Beth (Felicity Jones), and naively gets involved with the writer while dealing with her personal issues and home life.
Aside from the brilliantly observant script by Rafn, the cast is what makes Albatross work so well. Standing out is Koch (world cinema fans will recognise him as the lead from the Oscar-winning The Lives of Others) as Jonathan who seems unable to resist Emilia who comes along at just the rightwrong moment (depending on how you look at it) as he is struggling to replicate his earlier literary success and when his marriage is beginning to break down; Felicity Jones as Jonathan’s hopeful student who starts to let her hair down; and particularly relative newcomer Findlay as the charming and conflicted Emelia who comes into this family’s life like a whirlwind.
The film jumps effortlessly between touching human drama and true-to-life humour (sometimes from one moment to the next), never once feeling like its two types of movies vying for screen-time as is so often the case. Everything from the forbidden relationship between Jonathan and Emelia to her complicated home life rings entirely true, belying the inexperience of Rafn as a screenwriter. Albatross is exactly what you hope for from a coming-of-age “dramedy”: cute without being schmaltzy Luca Sbisa Womens Jersey , sweet without being sickly, insightful without being preachy. With a dynamite debut script from Rafn, Albatross is just about as good as this sort of thing gets and is easily one of the best films of the EIFF 2011 thus far.
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