Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:31 am
#56831
Have just finished watching "from time to time"
(which has been uploaded to you-tube completely)
One of my favourite authors Lucy M Boston (of whom I met as a child & toured her house "Green knowe" which is just down the road from me).
Izzy has just got to grips with her first Green Knowe book "The children of Green knowe" (1 of 6)
Whilst the film has been extremely simplified it does hold a charm that had me watching it through on you-tube (unheard of, piracy etc) ..I will be ordering a copy.
Makes for a gentle time tale of the occupants past & present, I won't spoil the end, happily i'd forgotton alot of the plot & was a bit weepy toward the end.
A nice film (no zombies, just ghosts of children mainly) telling the history of a house the author & her husband so evidently loved, i'll enjoy taking Izzy to the place next summer, it dates back to the Norman times, so around 1000 yrs old in places (nothing unusual for me considering my own school & houses we've lived) ..lovely to share something between the generations.
Heartwarming.
Synopsis
Based on Lucy M Boston’s best selling novel ‘The Children of Green Knowe’ and directed by Oscar Winner & Writer of Gosford Park and Downton Abbey Julian Fellowes.
Starring the inimitable Maggie Smith and Hugh Bonneville (both of Downton Abbey), Timothy Spall (Secrets & Lies) and Dominic West (The Wire) comes an engrossing family ghost story.
In times of war two centuries apart, two distinct worlds are linked by a single family and the house in which they live.
It is 1944 and thirteen year-old Tolly Oldknow (Alex Etel, Cranford) is sent to spend Christmas with his grandmother (Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey), whilst his mother searches for news of his father in wartime London. Spending his days exploring the sprawling ancestral estate, he begins to uncover family secrets and ghosts from the past as he becomes a witness to events during the Napoleonic wars and finds himself slowly drawn into participating in the drama.
Invisible to most people in the past, yet able to move amongst them, he begins to unravel the mystery which has bewildered his family for two centuries. The solution to the puzzle leads him into his greatest adventure yet…
A wonderful heart-warming story of a young boy learning the value of his family and its history.
if ever in the uk read the book & visit the house for a guided tour by Lucy's daughter (no appointment necessary except in may typically) ..one of those gems.
http://www.greenknowe.co.uk/history.html
(which has been uploaded to you-tube completely)
One of my favourite authors Lucy M Boston (of whom I met as a child & toured her house "Green knowe" which is just down the road from me).
Izzy has just got to grips with her first Green Knowe book "The children of Green knowe" (1 of 6)
Whilst the film has been extremely simplified it does hold a charm that had me watching it through on you-tube (unheard of, piracy etc) ..I will be ordering a copy.
Makes for a gentle time tale of the occupants past & present, I won't spoil the end, happily i'd forgotton alot of the plot & was a bit weepy toward the end.
A nice film (no zombies, just ghosts of children mainly) telling the history of a house the author & her husband so evidently loved, i'll enjoy taking Izzy to the place next summer, it dates back to the Norman times, so around 1000 yrs old in places (nothing unusual for me considering my own school & houses we've lived) ..lovely to share something between the generations.
Heartwarming.
Synopsis
Based on Lucy M Boston’s best selling novel ‘The Children of Green Knowe’ and directed by Oscar Winner & Writer of Gosford Park and Downton Abbey Julian Fellowes.
Starring the inimitable Maggie Smith and Hugh Bonneville (both of Downton Abbey), Timothy Spall (Secrets & Lies) and Dominic West (The Wire) comes an engrossing family ghost story.
In times of war two centuries apart, two distinct worlds are linked by a single family and the house in which they live.
It is 1944 and thirteen year-old Tolly Oldknow (Alex Etel, Cranford) is sent to spend Christmas with his grandmother (Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey), whilst his mother searches for news of his father in wartime London. Spending his days exploring the sprawling ancestral estate, he begins to uncover family secrets and ghosts from the past as he becomes a witness to events during the Napoleonic wars and finds himself slowly drawn into participating in the drama.
Invisible to most people in the past, yet able to move amongst them, he begins to unravel the mystery which has bewildered his family for two centuries. The solution to the puzzle leads him into his greatest adventure yet…
A wonderful heart-warming story of a young boy learning the value of his family and its history.
if ever in the uk read the book & visit the house for a guided tour by Lucy's daughter (no appointment necessary except in may typically) ..one of those gems.
http://www.greenknowe.co.uk/history.html