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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like Mrs Henderson Presents, it gives a superb older ensemble room for wit, reinvention and unexpected tenderness, with a buoyant comic surface that gradually makes space for real loss and renewal.
02
Why this pick
This shares the backstage-performance setting, sharp British banter and affectionate interest in formidable older artists refusing to become invisible.
03
Why this pick
A gently funny, moving portrait of later-life loneliness and new connection, carried by the same kind of poised, fiercely self-possessed central performance.
04
Why this pick
For the period British elegance and Judi Dench’s nuanced blend of restraint, mischief and longing; it is similarly intimate, humane and gracefully bittersweet.
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Why this pick
Another loving backstage valedictory for live entertainment, full of overlapping comic personalities and the melancholy awareness that a cherished theatrical world may be ending.
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01 / THE STORY
Eccentric 70-year-old widow Mrs Laura Henderson purchases the Windmill Theatre in London, as a post-widowhood hobby and appoints autocratic manager Vivian Van Damm. In 1937, they start a continuous variety revue called "Revudeville", but after other theatres in London copy this innovation, they begin losing money. Mrs Henderson suggests they add female nudity, similar to the Moulin Rouge in Paris, which is unprecedented in the United Kingdom. The Lord Chamberlain (Rowland Baring, 2nd Earl of Cromer) reluctantly allows this under the condition that the nude performers remain immobile, so the performances can be considered art, the equivalent of nude statues in museums.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Vivian Van Damm
Lord Cromer
Vera
Doris
COmic
Harry
Pilot
Gordon
