Ladies in Lavender
- Judi Dench: Ursula
- Maggie Smith: Janet
- Daniel Brühl: Andrzej Marowski
- Natascha McElhone: Olga Daniloff
- David Warner: Dr. Mead
The scent of lavender is a British feature film from the year 2004. The plot is based on a short story by William John Locke.
Action
Cornwall 1936: The elderly sisters Ursula and Janet take a shipwrecked young man to live with him. He is Polish and is called Andrzej. It turns out that he highly virtuosic violin playing. However, not only with his violin, he touched the hearts of the two ladies. He awakens particularly at Ursula long forgotten feelings and dreams of youth and fresh in love. When he and the Russian painter Olga Daniloff closer to the two older ladies are just as jealous as the village doctor, who reckons there are opportunities in the beauty.
Olga Andrzej convinced to go to London to audition her brother, a renowned violin soloist. After a long time the sisters received a letter from him that he will perform publicly with Daniloff and that the concert is even broadcast on the radio. The sisters travel to London and pursue the villagers the concert on the radio at the invitation of the housekeeper in the house of the sisters.
Reviews
- Thomas Warnecke described the action on Schnitt.de as a " grown on the dung of Großkitschière " " finest Pipifax ". However, he praised the representations of Judi Dench and Maggie Smith, who would make up for the shortcomings of the plot.
- Roger Ebert described the story in the Chicago Sun - Times on 12 May 2005 as "a disappointment ". It was a pleasure to see Judi Dench and Maggie Smith together, but the presentation of Daniel Brühl was " tiring ".
- BZ- rating: Sensitive film about the unthinking pride of youth and the impositions of age. A dash of British humor makes sure that he does not get too sad. Beautiful and touching, you can not show what is a heart for a crazy, vulnerable and wonderful thing - no matter what age.
- The Film Review Board Wiesbaden gave the film the predicate Especially Valuable. In the grounds of the FBW opinion states, inter alia: a finely -conceived script gave the film enchanting scenes full of poetry, human warmth and great anguish. The dialogues in their prescribed soon allow neologisms of great intensity. For this, the flickering again so typical English word joke sarcastically. Careful camera caught the magnificent natural scenery of Cornwall so fascinating one - as well as the beauty of mature and marked by life faces of the two old ladies. The thought dramaturgy gives the film the necessary time to the rhythm of the 30s of the previous century adequately adapt. Precise and unobtrusive, careful equipment. And a special highlight of the film provides the musical accompaniment.
Awards
Judi Dench and Maggie Smith were nominated in 2005 for the European Film Awards.
Background
The film was shot in England. The box office in theaters was 6.76 million U.S. dollars in the U.S. and 2.6 million pounds sterling in the UK.
Andrzej is also in the original poles, but he can make himself understood in German, and so are the first attempts at communication between him and the sisters in German. In the synchronization, this would of course not work, and therefore had to be changed.