Director
John Patrick Shanley
Your cliché Bingo card will be a full house after the first twenty minutes
For a country that called the most destructive war in human history The Emergency and a centuries-long conflict in our own land The Troubles, it seems we have gotten our tweed knickers in an awful bunch over
Wild Mountain Thyme.
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How much of this is mock outrage, post-colonial cringing, or anger over cultural vandalism, I m still not sure but such has been the opprobrium heaped upon director and writer’s John Patrick Shanley’s clunking cliché fest that you’d think the Brits were reintroducing the Penal Laws or that the price of a pint was about to go up by 10c.
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Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan and a good old fashioned rom-com
Jamie Dornan and Emily Blunt
The latest charming rom-com pairing is Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan. The stars discuss the appeal of Wild Mountain Thyme with Georgia Humphreys.
“Unique and lyrical and beautiful”; that’s how Emily Blunt passionately describes her latest project.
Wild Mountain Thyme is a romantic drama written and directed by New Yorker John Patrick Shanley – who created the classic rom-com Moonstruck – and is set in the bewitching Irish countryside. The film sees London-born Blunt, 38, play headstrong farmer Rosemary Muldoon; she has her heart set on winning the affections of her neighbour Anthony Reilly – played by Jamie Dornan – who she happens to have loved since they were 10 years old.
Verdict: Admirable, but not lovable
Heaven knows what ‘Uncle’ Walt Disney would have made of Nomadland, with its story of Americans made refugees in their own country, trying almost literally to consign grief, loss and economic hardship to the rear-view mirror.
I raise the rhetorical question (he’d have hated it, of course) because the film, based on a non-fiction book of the same name and anointed Best Picture at last Sunday’s Academy Awards, becomes available from today to watch at home on Disney+.
Now, it’s true that Disney should no longer be synonymous with Snow White and folksy made-for-TV films about heroic mutts finding their way home.