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The Heart of Me
Why this pick
Its Edwardian English milieu and illicit romance carry a similarly polished, melancholy sense of class constraint, with private desire gradually damaging everyone caught near it.
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MOVIE1971 1h 58m GBR
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The story follows a young boy named Leo Colston, who in the year 1900, is a guest of Marcus Maudsley, his wealthy school friend, as Leo spend the summer holidays at his family's Norfolk country house. While there, Marcus becomes sick, and he is quarantined with the measles. Left to entertain himself, Leo befriends Marcus's beautiful elder sister Marian Maudsley, and finds himself a messenger, carrying messages between her and Ted Burgess, a tenant farmer, with whom she is engaging in a clandestine affair.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Julie Christie
Lady Marian Trimingham
Michael Gough
Mr Maudsley
Edward Fox
Hugh Trimingham
Margaret Leighton
Mrs Maudsley
Alan Bates
Ted Burgess
Michael Redgrave
Leo Colston
Dominic Guard
Leo Colston