Ladies in Lavender (2005)

3/5

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11/13/04

3/5

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08/07/08

N/A

Smith is rather wasted...Perhaps if the actresses had exchanged roles, this pallid palette would have had more emotional color.

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03/01/07

N/A

One wonders how much of their performances came from Dance's direction and how much came from the actresses themselves, but what counts is what is there on the screen, which is more than satisfactory.

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05/02/06

C+

Filled with wonderful music and magnificent, subtle acting. The story, however, goes nowhere at a glacial pace.

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09/19/05

N/A

Maggie Smith and Judi Dench are a great duo, but the film isn’t so great.

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08/12/05

N/A

Remaining locked in Ursula and Janet’s fantasies, Ladies in Lavender evades complexity with monomania.

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08/09/05

2/4

Dance is so tentative and tasteful in his direction that he never draws out the underlying emotions beneath the polite exteriors.

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07/28/05

4/5

There's something irresistibly admirable about Dance's decision to make a film based on a short story by a long-out-of-favor writer like William J. Locke.

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07/20/05

B

...such a civilized and handsome film that we might be willing to forgive its lack of drama

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07/15/05

2/5

It's a British period piece, full of the sylvan Cornish coast and countryside, vintage motorcars, steam threshers and sensibilities. Pity they left out a compelling plot.

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07/08/05

N/A

The film's efforts to channel the charming small-town magic of, say, Local Hero or certain Ealing Studio comedies of the 1940s and '50s feel false and forced.

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07/07/05

2/5

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07/05/05