{"id":904,"date":"2004-11-08T23:47:06","date_gmt":"2004-11-08T23:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2004\/11\/ladies_in_laven\/"},"modified":"2004-11-08T23:47:06","modified_gmt":"2004-11-08T23:47:06","slug":"ladies_in_laven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/ladies_in_laven\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladies in Lavender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something particularly ridiculous about getting dressed up in black tie to go to the cinema. But it&#8217;s fun to dress up and for no clear reason, I got an invitation to the Royal Command Film Performance of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0377084\/\">Ladies in Lavender<\/a>.<br \/>\nThis is the new film featuring the two Dames &#8211; Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. It&#8217;s the directorial debut of Charles Dance, who&#8217;s also adapted it from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.djdchronology5.com\/ladieslavender.htm\">a short story<\/a> by William J Locke.<br \/>\nUrsula and Janet are sisters living in an idylic Cornish cottage, who one day find a half-drowned young man (Daniel Bruhl from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0301357\/\">Good Bye Lenin<\/a>) on the beach.  They nurse him back to health and they discover that he&#8217;s actually a Pole. They also find out that he has a talent for the violin, and a visiting tourist (the lovely Natascha McElhone) hears him and realises he has talent.<br \/>\nI won&#8217;t go any further, except to say that the film&#8217;s tagline about a &#8220;stranger who stole their hearts&#8221; is profoundly apt. A thoroughly enjoyable film that never turns in the direction you expect it. And the music is wonderful.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know if the Queen enjoyed it, although she stayed for the credits. But Philip wasn&#8217;t there &#8211; I suspect he wanted to catch Spooks on TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something particularly ridiculous about getting dressed up in black tie to go to the cinema. But it&#8217;s fun to dress up and for no clear reason, I got an invitation to the Royal Command Film Performance of Ladies in Lavender. This is the new film featuring the two Dames &#8211; Judi Dench and Maggie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}