A beautiful film...and Miss Gish should have been nominated for a Best Actress Oscar!
shareI agree Welch57 - in fact I believe she should have won the oscar for this year! Her performance is so beautiful. It's a perfect cast in a lovely, gentle film, the like of which simply isn't made any more.
shareAbsolutely agree! I'm glad I caught it by change on TV one day. I'm only 23 and this I think actually was the first film by these actors I had watched, of course I started backwards watching all their films. :P
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I agree completely. Such a warm, gentle, intimate film. No big dramatic scenes. No chase sequences. No sex or violence. But pure joy to watch. Miss Gish should certainly have been at least nominated for the Oscar.
shareI´ve loved this film and I´ve rated it very high.
I intend to watch over again since I have purchased the DVD. I intend to watch with my mother and my sister. I´d like my one and a half years older sister and I be together at an old age and spend time in a summer house by the sea, just like it happens in this story.
The scenery and set decoration as well as the acting is exquisite in this film. Vincent Price plays a small role but very fine acting as well as Lillian Gish´s who is the heart and soul of the film. Ann Sothern´s supporting role is good but not deserving of an academy award nomination, however she was nominated in recognition of her long film career starting in the 1930s, she had never before been nominated and this was her last film.
Bette Davis´ acting is not perceived as good as Lillian Gish´s because she plays the role of someone blind and in brittle health, who is difficult, bitter and unlikeable. One has to think that Davis didn´t have to try hard to play her part since she was someone already bitter in real life. She had recently suffered a big shock and disappointment by the very unkind and hideous book written by her daughter about her (in 1985), let alone her brittle health battling breast cancer, having suffered a mastectomy and a stroke in 1983. The same year that this film was released, Davis´ book memoirs, ¨This ´n that,¨ was published and in this book she writes a letter to her daughter in reply to her daughter´s book. Two years later, in 1989, Davis died from breast cancer.
I agree. This is really one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen.
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For people accustomed to blood and guts and plenty of CGI, I suppose this film doesn't rate very high. I believe this is film making at it's best. As for the cast, who else would someone want? I rate this film very high.
shareA beautiful film indeed. This is such a nice change of pace from the usual movie fare. Beautifully filmed and wonderfully acted. The handholding scene toward the end is pure gold. Lilian Gish was tremendous.
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