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Wetherby
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by Homevision
Sales Rank: 47242
Price: $17.99
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From acclaimed writer/director David Hare (<i>The Hours</i>, <i>Damage</i>) comes <i>Wetherby</i>, the compelling story of Jean Travers (Vanessa Redgrave), a schoolteacher whose life changes completely when a young man breaks into her home, and then kills himself right in front of her for no apparent reason. As Jean’s friends (Judi Dench and Ian Holm) struggle to help her, Jean is drawn deeper and deeper into a web of memories and deceptions. Vanessa Redgrave (<i>Howards End</i>, <i>Camelot</i>, <i>The Bostonians</i>) delivers a superb performance in <i>Wetherby</i>, a taut psychological drama that will keep the viewer guessing until the film’s final moments.
Viewer Reviews
Schoolteacher Jean Travers (Vanessa Redgrave) throws a dinner party for a few friends. The next day, a young man who attended the party (Tim McInnerny) returns, and she invites him in for coffee. During the conversation, the young man admits that he was uninvited to the party - everyone assumed that he was a guest of one of the partygoers. Jean is puzzled, but she has no time to react, as the young man pulls a revolver out of his pocket and commits suicide. Who is this young man and why did he kill himself in front of Jean? During the course of "Wetherby," we slowly learn that perhaps there are some connections between this young man and Jean and her friends.
"Wetherby" has all the elements of a terrific movie - an intelligent script, a crackling good premise, and a stellar cast, including Ian Holm and Judi Dench. Unfortunately, the parts simply don't gel, largely because of the frenetic yet strangely boring direction by celebrated playwright, David Hare, who also wrote the screenplay. The movie manages to be a bit quirky but still plays too much like a dull PBS stage adaptation; plus, "Wetherby" is dramatically muddled by intercutting between numerous flashbacks and unimportant subplots. The movie attempts to say some important things about loneliness and emotional repression, but it is difficult picking out and connecting to these themes given the messy direction. Overall, "Wetherby" is worth a look for fans of British dramas, but a much better movie should have emerged here.
Note: I avoid including "spoilers" in my reviews; as most reviews include information about the young man's suicide, which occurs very early in the film, I did not view it as a potential spoiler.
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