Mapp & Lucia: Series 1
by Donald McWhinnie
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Actor: Geraldine McEwen, Prunella ScalesDirector: Donald McWhinnie
Brand: Acorn Media
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 260 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-11-12
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Acorn Media
Movie Reviews of Mapp & Lucia: Series 1
Movie Review: Un Po' di Musica!
Summary: 5 Stars
About once every year, when the latest world fiasco, financial or otherwise, sets my teeth gnashing, I pop "Mapp & Lucia" into my DVD player and escape to the social whirl of Tilling-On-Sea of the 1930s. There can be no better restorative than the delicious rivalry between the oh-so-elegant Emmiline Lucas, aka Lucia (Geraldine McEwan), and the oh-so-proper Elizabeth Mapp (Prunella Scales). Aiding and abetting Lucia's schemes for village supremacy is the oh-so-fussy Georgie Pilson (Nigel Hawthorn), who engages in various activities with her--all of them innocuous--including painting, pretending to speak Italian, and playing duets on their musical evenings (nicknamed in their precious "Italian" manner, "Po di Mues").
As the saccharine smiles of the female protagonists send the fur flying, the laughs keep coming in this high comedy of manners. The cloche hats and embroidered silk dresses make for splendid viewing, as do the seamless performances of McEwan, Scales, and Hawthorne. The other Tilling eccentrics include a tippling Major Benjie (late of the Raj), the misnamed Diva (who has no pretensions to being queen of the village), the pipe-smoking artist Quaint Irene, the monocled Colonel Wise and his wife (Marion Mathie--otherwise Hilda Rumpole), and a priest from Manchester who, for reasons unknown, speaks with a Scottish accent.
Tilling-on-Sea is really the Sussex town of Rye--a cobble-stoned village rising out of the Romney Marsh. With its Mermaid Tavern (rebuilt in 1425), Rye is so charming that I once stayed a week, enjoying merely `being there'. "Mapp and Lucia" allows me to revisit Rye and the Romney Marsh, to forget the turbulent present, and to lose myself in several hours of sheer delight.
Summary of Mapp & Lucia: Series 1
MAPP & LUCIA SERIES 1 - DVD MovieBased on E.F. Benson's stories, this beloved 1986 British miniseries makes its long-awaited DVD debut in a two-disc set that contains all five episodes from the first season. The incomparable Prunella Scales (best-loved as dragon lady Sybil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers) and Geraldine McEwan star as Mapp and the recently widowed Lucia, who has come to the provincial English village Tilling-on-Sea. Lucia rents a house from Mapp for the summer. Almost immediately, the battle lines are drawn between these two formidable adversaries, who vie for control of Tilling society. Mapp and Lucia plot and counterplot against each other with such unconventional weapons as a conflicted gardener and a disputed lobster recipe. Adding to the fun is a gallery of eccentric characters, including Georgie (Oscar® winner Nigel Hawthorne), Lucia's fey confidante and co-conspirator, as well as the local minister, who insists on speaking with a Scottish accent, and Irene, a pipe-smoking artist who paints pictures of lady wrestlers. For those who have yet to make their acquaintance, Mapp and Lucia is a dishy delight. --Donald Liebenson
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