Wednesday, January 09, 2002
Gosford Park (2001)
Cast: Maggie Smith (Constance Trentham), Michael Gambon (William McCordle), Kristin Scott Thomas (Sylvia McCordle), Camilla Rutherford (Isobel McCordle)
For complete info, see IMDb's Gossford Park page.
I had to see this before the Oscars because of the best picture nomination (among others). It definitely won best original screenplay for a reason. Gossford Park is a very well written movie with an amazing cast. This story, set in 1932, shows the lives of the guests upstairs and the servants downstairs at a country house party in England.
Robert Altman does a great job directing Gossford Park and the overlapping dialogue is something you rarely see done this well in a movie. So much is going on, yet somehow you manage to catch everything. I don't think Gossford Park is for everyone, since some of the people who saw it when I did clearly didn't understand a few things and I ended up explaining them on our way out of the theatre. However, if you enjoy a good mystery and like a movie that makes you think, this is definitely the movie for you.
Grade: A-Labels: 2001, comedy, crime, drama, Kristin Scott Thomas, movie, mystery, Ryan Phillippe