Actors: Miranda Richardson, Josie Lawrence, Joan Plowright, Polly Walker, Alfred Molina, Jim Broadbent
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Enchanted April
A few years after the First World War, life in Britain is especially dark and depressing. Mrs. Rose Arbuthnot (Richardson) cannot confront her novelist husband Frederick (Broadbent) about his infidelities, so she and a friend, Lottie Wilkins (Lawrence), decide to rent a villa on the north Italian coast for the month of April. A classified ad turns up a widow in her 60s with an acid tongue (Plowright) and a glamorous social butterfly needing a break from the bustle and attentions of men (Walker) to join them and split the cost. The women find Italy wonderfully sunny and relaxing, although two husbands eventually show up, and the villa's owner precipitates a small crisis when he drops by and is attracted to Rose. This 1992 film, based on the 1922 novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, is a modest, languid charmer of a chick flick.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Analysis of Enchanted April
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1900-1920's
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- rekindling lost love/marriage
Family, struggling with
Yes
Struggle with:
- Husband
Ethnic/Regional/Gender story?
Yes
Main Char. ethnic: (if not US Caucasian)
- British
Woman/class/friends story?
- women's (plural) story
Culture clash?
- visiting a different culture
Culture of surrounding area:
- Italian
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- homemaker/wife
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
Body type
- (woman) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
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
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
- Italy
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- encouraged
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Subtitles?
- No
Is this movie based on a
- book
