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thisbluespirit · 9 months ago

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Films watched (2000s): Glorious 39 (Momentum, 2009); written & dir. Stephen Poliakoff. Starring Romola Garai, Bill Nighy, Eddie Redmayne, Julie Christie, Charlie Cox, Jeremy Northam, David Tennant & Christopher Lee.

"Anne, listen."

#glorious 39 #gif #tbs old films watched #romola garai #anne keyes #bill nighy #eddie redmayne #jeremy northam #david tennant #charlie cox #hugh bonneville #2000s #cinema #period drama #wwii #stephen poliakoff #british cinema #thriller #spies #so last summer i finally saw this which i wanted to see before i was so ill #(i mean. look at the cast. it's a ridiculous cast)#it's a really interesting psychological thriller about people in the british gov't pushing for appeasement in the summer of 1939 #and silencing pro-war people (in this film; david tennant's character)#which leads to a big secret in the keyes family around their lost adopted daughter anne #(romola)#but also. anne is an aspiring actor & it gets 1 million points for them showing her shooting a 1939 film #and it's a gainsborough melodrama & a pretty credible looking one #(my old film watching has involved a lot of gainsborough melodramas so i appreciated that!)#psychological stuff not action-y. v romola-centric. beautifully shot. v dark and interesting themes well done #tw for gaslighting and animal harm

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