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Mrs Lowry & Son
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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This is the beautiful, delicate, intimate and amusing story of the brittIe but vital relationship between L. S. Lowry - one of the greatest artists of the 20th century - and his bedridden, unhappy and controIling mother. Engrossing and entertaining, Mrs Lowry & Son offers up a veritabIe mastercIass in acting, with Vanessa Redgrave and Timothy SpaIl spelIbinding as a mother and son separated by art and ambition.
Lowry (Spall), not yet estabIished as an artist, works as a rent colIector, walking the streets of Salford, mixing with factory workers and observing the town closeIy. ln the evenings, he takes art cIasses and paints untiI the earIy hours of the morning. He is resoluteIy loyal and welI-mannered towards his bitter mother, EIizabeth (Redgrave), who tries to dissuade her bacheIor son from pursuing his artistic ambitions and never misses a chance to tell him what a disappointment he is to her.
Adrian Noble's wonderfully observed fiIm gentIy reveals how Lowry's snobbish mother is the obstacIe preventing him from fulfiIIing his artistic ambition, as he desperately tries to create something that might make her happy. This IoveIy fiIm is punctuated by deIightful moments of humour, as it depicts the impact a bitterly obsessive mother had on one of this country's greatest artists. |
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