Chichester Cinema at New Park
PLENTY
The 18th Chichester International Film festival
Actress Retrospective: Meryl Streep
David Hare: The Political Romantic
David Hare's Broadway play - about political idealism and the way some people always need to be fighting for a cause - was well transferred to the screen by director Fred Schepisi from Hare's screenplay.
Streep (in the midst of a streak of movies that required accents) plays a British woman who fought for the French Resistance during World War II. When she returns to normal life in post-war England and marries a diplomat, she becomes something of a terror - speaking her mind when, of course, diplomacy dictates otherwise. Did she leave the best part of herself in France, where life was more meaningful and immediate?
Hare's comment on Great Britain's post-war slide into Thatcherism, features a tough-minded performance by Streep. The very strong cast includes Charles Dance, Tracey Ullman, John Gielgud, Sting and Ian McKellen.
USA · 
UK · 1985 · Fred Schepisi · 121min
