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Screen Icons: Judi Dench (DVD)
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Screen Icons: Judi Dench (DVD)
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Loot Price R112
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Collection of four films starring Dame Judi Dench. In 'Chocolat'
(2000), set in a small old-fashioned French town, single mother
Vianne (Juliette Binoche) arrives with her six-year-old daughter
and opens up a chocolate shop. Vianne creates some mouth-watering
sweets which inspire the usually dull villagers to indulge their
temptations and experience some true happiness. But it is only when
handsome stranger Roux (Johnny Depp) arrives that Vianne begins to
recognise her own desires. Dench won the Best Supporting Actress
Oscar for her portrayal of Armande Voisin, the freethinking
landlady. 'Iris' (2001) is a biographical account of the life of
existentialist author Iris Murdoch as recalled in the memoirs of
her husband, Professor John Bayley. John (Hugh Bonneville) is a shy
slightly goofy undergraduate at Oxford who falls for fellow
student, the brilliant and charismatic Iris Murdoch (Kate Winslet).
Against all the odds she returns his affection and so begins a love
affair that will endure for over 40 years, amid the ups and downs
of her achievements as a famous philosophical novelist. The film
eventually flashes forward to the couple in older age, with John
(Jim Broadbent) slowly realising that Iris (Dench) has a mental
illness, one that threatens the existence of her personality, of
the person he knows and loves. In 'The Importance of Being Earnest'
(2002), adapted from Oscar Wilde's comedy of errors, Algernon
Moncrieff (Rupert Everett) has discovered that he has a secret in
common with his friend Jack Worthing (Colin Firth) - they both use
alter egos when in a tight spot. However, when Algernon decides to
pose as Jack's alter ego - a brother Earnest from London - for a
weekend in the country, he finds that Jack's ward Cicely (Reese
Witherspoon) has developed an infatuation with the mysterious
brother; and now she has finally met him. Meanwhile, Algernon's
cousin Gwendolyne (Frances O'Connor) is also staying for the
weekend and knows Jack as his alter ego. Gwendolyne's mother, the
stern Lady Bracknell (Dench), has to be convinced to give her
blessing to the blossoming romances. In 'The Shipping News' (2001)
Quoyle (Kevin Spacey) is a newspaper inksetter in Poughkeepsie,
silently suffering in a marriage of inconvenience to Petal (Cate
Blanchett), who doesn't love him and is keen to put their baby
daughter up for adoption. Petal is killed in an accident however,
and worse, Quoyle's parents both die fairly soon after in a dual
suicide. At the funeral he meets his aunt (Dench) who persuades him
the time is right to move back to his ancestral home, Newfoundland,
with his disturbed daughter Bunny (Kaitlyn Gainer) in tow. Despite
the isolated and traditional atmosphere of the small village,
Quoyle forms a relationship with local divorcee Wavey Prowse
(Julianne Moore) with whose handicapped son Bunny forms a
friendship. He soon lands a job reporting the shipping news for a
local paper and starts to rediscover a meaning to life, the nascent
relationship with Wavey offering hope and redemption.
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