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Mothering Sunday

2021 · 104 min

A hushed, sunlit period reverie that drifts between memory and loss, asking quiet patience as it lingers on skin, silence and grief.

Directed by: Eva Husson
Genres: Romance, Drama
Starring: Odessa Young, Josh O'Connor, Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù

Overview: 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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Directed by: Eva Husson
Genres: Romance, Drama
Starring: Odessa Young, Josh O'Connor, Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
romanticstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
love
class
memory
identity
Places: countryside
single country house
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex strong

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Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	2
Realism	8
Romance	6
Tension	4
Darkness	5
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: romance, drama
Directed by: Eva Husson
Written by: Alice Birch
Starring: Odessa Young, Josh O'Connor, Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Patsy Ferran, Emma D'Arcy, Glenda Jackson, Olivia Colman, Colin Firth
Music: Morgan Kibby
Cinematography: Jamie D. Ramsay
Runtime: 104 min
Country: Germany, United Kingdom
Languages: English

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