Dolly felicity jones is in her wedding gown, upstairs at her british mansion, in thought. After one hour i turned it off and never saw it to the end. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Characters are shown so clearly through their speech and actions that i felt. Cheerful weather for the wedding film the guardian. Cheerful weather for the wedding movie movie insider.
When i picked up cheerful weather for th e wedding by julia strachey for the first time three years ago, i did so knowing that it is one of those persephone titles that readers are divided on. Cheerful weather was simultaneously issued as an audiobook, read by miriam margolyes in a production by the awardwinning company, the story circle. To wrap up a wedding toast well, it is best to end on a meaningful note. The movie does have some dry wit sprinkled throughout, and it reminded me a little of gosford park 2001 the way the story unfolded in a sliceoflife fashion. Virginia woolf describes this book as complete and sharp and individual so i was excited to finally get round to reading it. The publication of cheerful weather for the wedding coincided with the breakdown of julia stracheys own marriage to the bisexual, depressive, alcoholic, sculptor, stephen tomlin, whose mother, according to frances partridge was the model for the monstrously selfabsorbed mrs thatcham. Cheerful weather for th e wedding on dvd march 26, 20 starring felicity jones, james norton, luke treadaway, elizabeth mcgovern. Cheerful weather for th e wedding is a quintessentially british movie about love, obligation and sacrifice.
Ive reread cheerful weather for the wedding ahead of seeing the. Cheerful weather for the wedding, with elizabeth mcgovern the. Cheerful weather for the wedding on dvd march 26, 20 starring felicity jones, james norton, luke treadaway, elizabeth mcgovern. To read more about cheerful weather for th e wedding go to the persephone. To read more about cheerful weather for the wedding go to the persephone. Donald rices cheerful weather for the wedding calls upon the style and. Cheerful weather for the wedding by julia strachey 5 caressing stars. Its basically an english period piece about a dysfunctional family, elizabeth mcgovern. Cheerful weather for th e wedding is a 2012 british comedy drama film directed by donald rice and starring felicity jones, luke treadaway, and elizabeth mcgovern. It is a brisk english march day, and dolly is getting ready to marry the wrong man. Today is the wedding day of dolly thatcham, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that bubble to the surface at such gatherings. Donald rices cheerful weather for the wedding calls upon the style and period and even an actress from the popular tv drama downton abbey. I thought the acting was very well done, felicity jones is very talented and elizabeth mcgovern really added a lot. Instead its about the things not said, the opportunities missed, the realities that get in the way of the storybook endings and the way hesitation and fear often gets in the way of life and leads us to do what may be necessary.
Not so cheerful weather for the wedding frock flicks. Cheerful weather for the wedding 1932 is a novella by julia strachey. The beautiful piano music for cheerful weather a 1932 waltz by levitzki was especially recorded for us by daniel becker. Donald rices cheerful weather for the wedding calls upon the style and period and even an actress from the popular tv drama downton. I did have my concerns about how such a short, almost novellalike, story could be made into a film. Downstairs, her fiance and her former lover grow increasingly anxious. She is anxious about the choices she has made and is trying to figure out if this is what she wants, or if she has the gall to go through with something. She was thirtyone when cheerful weather for the wedding was published, and had drawn heavily on her own experience when writing of dolly thatchams unhappy wedding day. Cheerful weather for the wedding 2012 covering media. She was thirtyone when cheerful weather for th e wedding was published, and had drawn heavily on her own experience when writing of dolly thatchams unhappy wedding day. Waylaid by the disheartened admirer who failed to win her over while he still could, a distant and detached mother, and her own sense of.
Apr 22, 2012 for most of its running time, cheerful weather for the wedding is a pleasant but forgettable tale of starcrossed lovers, but at about the hour mark it becomes apparent that its more than. Julias own mother had been a remote figure since her divorce from julias father, oliver. Adapted from the 1932 novella cheerful weather for the wedding by julia strachey of the bloomsbury group, the film is about a young woman on her wedding day who worries that shes about to marry the wrong man, while both her fiance. Cheerful weather for the wedding 2012 plot summary imdb. Financial analysis of cheerful weather for the wedding 2012 including budget, domestic and international box office gross, dvd and bluray sales reports, total earnings and profitability. The latest one, cheerful weather for the wedding, is a welcome addition, light on its feet and brimming with vivid character portraits. Parents need to know that cheerful weather for the wedding is anything but cheerful. She places a small cast on a restricted set and the principal action, the wedding of the title, takes place offstage. But the film is bound to suffer in comparison with that. At the time i had no idea that it had been made into a film, and a relatively recent one at that. A large group of family members and assorted friends gathers for a young womans marriage in postwwi england, an event that she seems to be anticipating with dread.
This barbed comic satire, adapted from a novel by julia strachey, is more. Cheerful weather for a wedding is a realistic love story told through the eyes of the leading man on the morning the love of his life is set to marry another man. Be the first to ask a question about cheerful weather for the wedding. In the end it wasnt one thing or another not a convincing romance, and definitely not taylors. Dolly thatcham felicity jones is to be married to the wealthy owen james norton after a very brief engagement.
Im going to quit right here with it, at least for now, but its been great fun kicking ideas around regarding what the author intended, and how were supposed to read her characters and the seething. For reasons that are disclosed only at the end, dolly and owen are rushing into. Nov 01, 2012 in this lighthearted and steamy romantic comedy, bridetobe dolly must choose between her devoted fiancee and the former lover she wants to seduce her. It would be difficult to imagine a film reaping greater benefit from the sudden outbreak of downton abbey fever than cheerful weather for th e wedding, a period british drama set in a large aristocratic home, a film even courteous enough to include elizabeth mcgovern in the matriarchal role. Cheerful weather for the wedding persephone classics. The film covered one day dollys wedding day, but throughout the film we got glimpses of past experiences and we also saw different perspectives of the events of the day. Cheerful weather for the wedding 2012 rotten tomatoes.
On the day of dollys felicity jones wedding, a former flame returns to stir up. Published by the hogarth press in 1932, it tells the story of a brisk march day in england. Cheerful weather for th e wedding by julia strachey 1932, persephone 2009 this book came to my attention in a blog entry that described it as a slapstick. Cheerful weather for the wedding is a gloomy tale about a pair of crazy kids in love who just cannot get their sht together. The setting is the large house in the south of england, staffed by a fair number of servants whom the owner, mrs. It doesnt spoil much to say that cheerful weather for a wedding. Dec 07, 2012 cheerful weather for the wedding photos. Dec 06, 2012 donald rices cheerful weather for the wedding calls upon the style and period and even an actress from the popular tv drama downton abbey. Starring elizabeth mcgovern as hetty thatcham, the widowed matriarch of a wellheeled british clan, cheerful weather for th e wedding may look like an offshoot of downton abbey. Donald rices film cheerful weather for the wedding resembles. Best movies like cheerful weather for the wedding bestsimilar.
December wrapup 2017 and another favourite book of the. There is a little light humor coming from family members, but nothing raucous or more than mildly amusing. Anyone facing a deluge of summer nuptials will find breezy relief in julia stracheys 1932 novella, cheerful weather for the wedding. Published by the hogarth press in 1932, it tells the story of a brisk march day in england, somewhere on the dorset coast, 1 during which dolly is due to marry the honourable owen bigham.
Some movies like cheerful weather for th e wedding. I wondered, should i say strakey or straquet as in hyacinth bucket when the lady of the house is speaking. The last summer, shown in major flashbacks, dashing. The presence of elizabeth mcgovern certainly adds weight to my theory and i cant imagine how else it would have ended up there. Arriving at a time when downton abbey has made the love lives of proper british citizens popular once again, donald rices adaptation of julia stracheys 1932 novel cheerful weather for th e wedding certainly feels like its being released at a most advantageous moment, but in truth its tale of young love and family drama is timeless. Cheerful weather for th e wedding describes a country wedding in dorset guests eat and drink, a rejected suitor wanders around, the bride fortifies herself with rum and everybody pays tribute to the institution of marriage. Cheerful weather for the wedding 2012 financial information. This short, witty novel was written in 1932 by a niece of lytton strachey and first published by the hogarth press. These two novels published in 1932 and 1951 introduced a rare and unusual talent. Cheerful weather for the wedding by julia strachey 1932, persephone 2009 this book came to my attention in a blog entry that described it as a slapstick. Cheerful weather for the wedding is a rather gloriously intriguing little bit of literature in that the speculations it spawns are endless. Cheerful weather for the wedding 2012 customers who bought this item also bought.
Dec 07, 2012 starring elizabeth mcgovern as hetty thatcham, the widowed matriarch of a wellheeled british clan, cheerful weather for the wedding may look like an offshoot of downton abbey. Cheerful weather for the wedding by julia strachey goodreads. Cheerful weather for the wedding suffers most, though, from an excessively blunt approach. I havent watched season 3 of downton abbey yet, so maybe i was preparing myself when i put cheerful weather for the wedding on my netflix queue. Anyone facing a deluge of summer nuptials will find breezy relief in julia stracheys 1932 novella, cheerful weather for th e wedding. Screenplay, rice, mary henely magill, from the novel by julia strachey.
Cheerful weather for th e wedding is not a terribly complicated movie. Cheerful weather for the wedding movie quotes rotten tomatoes. I expected, therefore, to be entertained in the way that one is entertained by wodehouse and benson and waugh, or perhaps by nancy mitford. Apart from these performances, cheerful weather for the wedding is an average dramatic comedy, with a dry, british humor and a lack of ingenuity. A simple story with a surprisingly poignant ending, this little book is the definition of perfection. However, the film, adapted from a 1932 julia strachey novella praised and published by leonard and virginia woolf, does begin with the promise of a turbulent main event. I kept hoping the plot was going to pick up but it was so incredibly tedious.
Cheerful weather is a social comedy in the sense that the cherry orchard is a comedy. Watch cheerful weather for the wedding prime video. The story is written beautifully and shows the complexities of women, it also portrays how saying what you feel is difficult no matter your sex and how sometimes the end of the story. The last book i loved was cheerful weather for th e wedding by julia strachey.
A good woman 2004, the wedding pact 2014, these foolish things 2005, mansfield park 1999, top end wedding 2019. Jan 29, 20 cheerful weather for the wedding julia strachey january 29, 20 by claire the captive reader when i picked up cheerful weather for the wedding by julia strachey for the first time three years ago, i did so knowing that it is one of those persephone titles that readers are divided on. Cheerful weather for the wedding by donald rice donald. Oct 06, 2017 micas father chokes up as he delivers an emotional speech at her wedding. With felicity jones, luke treadaway, elizabeth mcgovern, james norton. The flashbacks to summer love are filmed in warm light, the wedding day in drab, gray tones. Cheerful weather for the wedding julia strachey the. Cheerful weather finds comedy in a 1932 english wedding. Cheerful weather for the wedding is a 2012 british comedy drama film directed by donald rice and starring felicity jones, luke treadaway, and elizabeth mcgovern.
I hadnt loved a book in a while, but i thought i might love this one because it is a persephone book, and i also quite loved the cover which features a 1930s harold knight painting of a languid young lady in a seacolored sweater and yellow skirt, reading on a window seat, with downs or cottages or some such. Cheerful weather for the wedding, with elizabeth mcgovern. Cheerful weather for the wedding raising children network. But he left town at the end of the season, and mrs. It presents a young womans struggle to decide between the man she loved and who broke her heart, and her safe and financially stable fiance, for whom she feels very little passion. As john russell remarks, it is pure comedy, dealt in a particular. The initial attempt rather threw me i wasnt quite sure what i was dealing with it was. Cheerful weather for th e wedding by julia strachey 1932.
Cheerful weather for th e wedding persephone classics by strachey, julia and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Cheerful weather for the wedding finishing thoughtsdiscussion questions. The climax comes, quite literally, with a bang, and on the way toward this finale, we wait to see if happiness will be sacrificed for family and social obligations, and meanwhile watch the film sadly. Do not be fooled by the title of the 2012 film, cheerful weather for th e wedding. Cheerful weather for th e wedding suffers most, though, from an excessively blunt approach. Cheerful weather for the wedding is a short, almost novellaesque, book first published in 1932 by hogarth press, leonard and virginia woolfs own publishing house.
Dollys wedding day, but throughout the film we got glimpses of past experiences and we also saw different perspectives of the events of the day. And in a final farewell speech joseph manages to put everything in its rightful place. Forster and virginia woolf, and other bloomsbury elders, julia greatly admired chekhov. Cheerful weather for the wedding movie synopsis and info.
The book is too brief to explain much, and i had to guess why the wedding was happening at all. Wedding toasts are typically beautiful speeches that honor the newlyweds with good wishes. View all photos 21 cheerful weather for the wedding quotes. Cheerful weather for the wedding movie quotes rotten. As the clock ticks and the guests grow more and more restless, the bridetobe must decide whether to run away with joseph or settle into the humdrum security of married life. This fatherofthebrides speech will warm your heart. Her own marriage to the sculptor stephen tomlin was coming to an end after five years, and tomlins imperious and scatterbrained mother provided the basis for mrs. Make that a very english film and although its also a period piece you rather imagine the same story could be told today. At the end i was left wondering what had even happened. Cheerful weather for the wedding the wedding day waffling of a 30sera brit femme yields predictable comedy and melodrama in cheerful weather for the wedding. Julias own mother had been a remote figure since her divorce from julias father, oliver strachey, so. If you like cheerful weather for the wedding you are looking for sweet, captivating and entertaining movies about with lovers reunited, under the surface, love and romance, love triangle, wedding, ex lover and friendship themes of comedy, drama and romance genre shot in uk. Cheerful weather for the wedding persephone classics by strachey, julia and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. No plot nor meaning, in spite of a few good actors.
Cheerful weather for th e wedding comes over as a brilliant comic setpiece in search of a novel to contain it. A welldone toast can leave the happy couple with pleasant memories for a lifetime but a good toast can be spoiled by a bad ending. Buy cheerful weather for the wedding new edition by strachey, julia, partridge, frances isbn. Apart from these performances, cheerful weather for th e wedding is an average dramatic comedy, with a dry, british humor and a lack of ingenuity. Today is dolly thatchams wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and gri. I was charmed by it on that first reading and rereading it this month for simons readalong i found it no less wonderful or.
A young woman frets upstairs in her familys country manor on her. Cheerful weather for the wedding by julia strachey. Cheerful weather for the wedding dvd big gay picture show. Cheerful weather for the wedding describes a country wedding in dorset guests eat and drink, a rejected suitor wanders around, the bride fortifies herself with rum and everybody pays tribute to the institution of marriage. Cheerful weather for the wedding persephone classics paperback 31 december 2011. Tribeca film cheerful weather for the wedding acquired. I felt i only knew two characters well by the end the mother of the bride, outrageous in her inability to empathise with anyone at all, and the other man. Kennedy has written many books and oversees a boot camp thats. Cheerful weather for the wedding official trailer youtube. Thatcham, is unable either to manage or to comprehend. Rent cheerful weather for the wedding 2012 on dvd and blu. Published by the hogarth press in 1932, it tells the story of a brisk march day in england, somewhere on the dorset coast, during which dolly is due to marry the honourable owen bigham. Cheerful weather for the wedding a colorful british comedy. Dec 06, 2012 i t doesnt spoil much to say that cheerful weather for a wedding contains little good weather and no wedding ceremony.
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