The Camomile Lawn
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Movie Reviews of The Camomile Lawn
Movie Review: The Chamomile Lawn
Summary: 4 Stars
Entertaining enough, to keep you watching. A bit eyebrow-lifting, for husband & I both, to see Jennifer Ehle, baring it all, with full frontal nudity, & emiting obscenities...namely, the "F" word, repeatedly, when describing what she felt was the sound the train was making, while she was in her sleeper booth with her new husband.
With her natural (blond) hair color, in this miniseries, & filmed in her pre-Elizabeth Bennet days, her character revealed to us exactly what lay beneath Lizzy's ample cleavage, prior to her having won that role. Obviously, an actress without inhibitions, for her to portray Calypso, who, although a virgin on her wedding day, turned out to possess very loose morals, as the film progressed.
We did not care for the ending of this story, & it is one that we will probably not view again.
Movie Review: Excellent Period Drama
Summary: 4 Stars
Chamomile Lawn follows the lives of half a dozen cousins and their friends during WWII. The Chamomile Lawn itself is a beautiful old Victorian located on the cliffs in Cornwall. The cousins lives intertwine, intermingle and at times incestuous relationships form. I particularly liked Sophie, Calypso and the twins.
At first I found the series a bit difficult to get into. Some of the characters are cold and a bit selfish. Also the child abuse and the incest is somewhat distasteful. But eventually I found myself really enjoying the scenery, the characters and the involved plot.
4 stars.
Movie Review: engrossing story
Summary: 4 Stars
this story caught my attention immediately. I am a fan of many of the stars and it was interesting to see them play roles very different from my original introduction (Jennifer Ehle as someone other than Elizabeth Bennett and Felicity Kendall as someone other than Rosemary Boxer). I was a little surprised by the sexual content and nudity but it was nothing offensive.
My only problem is the "up in the air" ending. I find this a quite common in BBC productions (Ballykissangel for one), maybe it's because they are so interesting and engaging that I don't want them to end.
Movie Review: ENTERTAINING
Summary: 4 Stars
Wonderful good actors, specially Toby Stephens and Jennifer Ehle (big fan of the 2). Entertaining period movie, with family love and unity abounding. Still "love" comes out of this movie (Calypso's love to her husband came out in the end). Of course there are some entertainment which makes it a "light comedy, light drama" movie. Very good ending.Movie Review: MELODRAMA
Summary: 3 Stars
I wanted to really enjoy this miniseries because of the good reviews and because of the subject matter--generally favorable reviews from pros and the general public about an extended family reminiscing about their lives before, during and after World War II. However, I just found the whole effort along with its characters rather tedious. I have not read the novel by Mary Wesley that this miniseries is based on. Perhaps that is my problem. Nevertheless, I just found the entire presentation along with its characters and its tremendous amount of sex to be very melodramatic I don't consider myself to be a prude; however, with everyone either "getting it on" or trying desperately to "get it on" I grew a little weary of the story and its subject matter.
This presentation has many good actors that I have admired in other performances but NOT in this one. I adored Jennifer Ehle in "Pride Prejudice" but found her as blond Calypso in this outing to be very shallow and unconvincing as this rather ditzy character. . I also adored Toby Stephens as Philby in `Cambridge Spies" but not as extremely randy Oliver which I just found the character to be annoying, In fact I did not care for Felicity Kendal or her most irritating husband played by Paul Eddington (both of "Good neighbors fame). I did not find them to be interesting at all. I just found it impossible to "connect" with any of the characters or characterizations. (The one thing I can say about the characters in this presentation is they remained dreary from youth to old age and they remained so no matter who portrayed them even if it were the likes of Claire Bloom (Sophie in old age) or Rosemary Harris (Calypso in old age)