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Emma's War on DVD (1986)
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This wartime rites of passage picture is notable only for the fact that it was one of Lee Remick's last features before her tragic death from cancer at just 55. Struggling to find depth in a film in which image takes precedence over content, she plays a lonely, drunken mother who drags her daughters away from their blissful boarding school existence and deposits them in a rundown outback town, where, frustratingly (both for them and us), very little ever happens. Tom Cowan's photography neatly suggests the contrasting atmosphere of the two places, but director Clytie Jessop's patchwork screenplay (co-written with Peter Smalley) flits between episodes with no discernible dramatic focus. Time Out Yet another Australian period drama in which an independent woman suffers from Life and a surfeit of syrupy sentiment.... Read more on www.timeout.com Members ReviewsReviews Voted Most HelpfulMost Recent Reviews |
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