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Actors: Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Alan Bates, Helen Mirren, Emily Watson, Clive Owen, Derek Jacobi, Richard E. Grant
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Gosford Park |
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Director Robert Altman's 2001 serving is a masterpiece of character and nuance -- a sort of class-dissecting cross between "Upstairs, Downstairs" and Agatha Christie. In November 1932, wealthy British aristocrats and their friends gather at the estate of Sir William McCordle (Gambon) for a weekend shooting party. Though there are dozens of characters, both upper and serving class, all busily looking up to, down on, and judging one another, the film juggles them all fairly nicely. A murder leads to the revelation of all sorts of secrets. For the "main character," I have arbitrarily chosen "Mary" (Kelly Macdonald), the new and inexperienced maid of the Countess of Trentham, because she just possibly gets a little more screen time than the rest, and is the only outsider (including an affable, bumbling police inspector delightfully played by Stephen Fry) to solve the mystery, but this is a totally ensemble performance by an array of England's greatest actors and actresses. Like "In the Bedroom" but in a very different way, it's a leisurely, character-driven film more than a plot-driven one, so you have to settle into its pace and pay very close attention to appreciate its manifold riches.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Gosford Park |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Story of
- catching brutal killer/stalker
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- servant
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- thoughtful
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- actual description of sex
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