Mothering Sunday (2021)
Directed by Eva Husson
On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild finds herself alone on Mother's Day. Her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Niven, are out and she has the rare chance to spend quality time with her secret lover. Paul is the boy from the manor house nearby, Jane's long-term love despite the fact that he's engaged to be married to another woman, a childhood friend and daughter of his parents' friends. But events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane's life forever.
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And while the nonlinear storytelling does evoke a sense of nostalgia in a way that recalls Greta Gerwig‘s Little Women , most of the time it ends up feeling messy.
Past films of “Mothering Sunday”’s ilk have likewise depicted the creative process, from Saoirse Ronan burning the midnight oil with individual papers in Greta Gerwig’s 2019 “Little Women” to Nicole Kidman’s Virginia Woolf murmuring the opening lines to “Mrs.
If Graham Swift’s 2016 novella was a guest at the same elegant, repressed garden party as L.P. Hartley’s “The Go-Between” and Ian McEwan’s “Atonement,” Eva Husson and screenwriter Alice Birch’s unusual, stimulating adaptation comes closer to the shattered experimentalism of Joseph Losey than the heritage-minded handsomeness of Joe Wright.