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Miss Potter

The life of Beatrix Potter is the most enchanting tale of all.

Written by Richard Maltby, Jr., Miss Potter explores the life of Potter (Renee Zellweger), the author of the beloved and best-selling children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit and her struggle to overcome a domineering and unsupportive mother and the chauvinism of Victorian England to become a published author.

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Bridget... er Miss Potter - movie_goer

"Stories don't always end where their author intended but their is joy where ever they take us."

If you liked Jane Austins Pride and Prejudice you would find this familuar. English acted biography of quaint female painter and author who published a series of childrens books. This film was supported by the Arts Council of England. With good intentions to promote British Literature in Theatre and broden the spectrum of dull contenters.

Honestly, Renee Zellweger disappointed me because her performance seemed like a weird parody of bridget jones. Ewan Mcgregor extremely ridiculous in his role and what was up with that mustache? ergh. But all in all the movie was... just ok.

I loved it! - unohoo

So there!

Beautifully acted and directed; viewable by the entire family.
The art direction and costuming were also done superbly.

If you crave mindless action, pyrotechnics and shallow entertainment, this movie is not for you!

Beatrix Potter was a woman ahead of her time.
She was instrumental in changing the world without being obnoxious.
Instead, she showed assertiveness rather than aggressiveness.

A Touching Movie, But Also Very Sad In A Way - revsdd

One would like to think that the most prolific children's author of all time was a fun-loving, happy, cheerful person, and yet this movie shatters that image. Beatrix Potter (creator of Peter Rabbit among others) is depicted as a shy, lonely, isolated and socially awkward woman who sometimes lives in an imagined world of her own and whose only friends are the animals she creates for her stories (her friendship with them is being depicted by them becoming - to Beatrix only - animated creatures rather than still drawings.) All her relationships - save two - are problematic. Her original publishers don't take her work seriously, her father is loving but patronizing, her mother never appreciates her talent (at one point her father says to her mother "our daughter is famous, my dear, and you seem to be the only one who doesn't realize that!") The two exceptions are important though. Norman - who eventually is given responsibility for publishing her books (Potter is "fobbed off" onto him by his older brothers who actually run the firm) - believes in her and eventually falls madly in love with her and his sister Millie becomes her best friend. Even these relationships turn tragic when Beatrix and Norman are engaged but can't tell anyone because her parents insist on keeping it a secret (they felt Beatrix was marrying beneath herself) and Norman then dies before the marriage takes place.

Renee Zellweger (my favourite actress who can take any role of any kind it seems and make it work brilliantly) was indeed brilliant as Beatrix Potter. The rest of the cast were quite solid - especially Barbara Flynn as Beatrix' mother, and Ewan McGregor as Norman. The strict moral standards of the early 20th century were portrayed well and the movie even manages some light humour now and then. Finally, the movie even becomes uplifting, as Beatrix manages to craft a life of her own, away from her parents' stifling home.

Truly both touching and sad.

Critiques des membres Lire tous...

Bridget... er Miss Potter - movie_goer

I loved it! - unohoo

A Touching Movie, But Also Very Sad In A Way - revsdd

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