I watched this movie on a flight home from LA this past weekend. I had heard about it, but hadn't seen any previews or notices that it was even in theaters. There were a lot of sniffles in the main cabin once the movie was over.
It was truly lovely - the acting, the costumes, the scenery, the humor; and the animation of her paintings was a nice touch. Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, and Emily Watson were terrific. Zellweger and McGregor were both in Down With Love (which I swear must have been based on Sex and the Single Girl with Natalie Wood and Tony Curtis), and Emily Watson always does great parts - Gosford Park, Hilary and Jackie.
I had no idea Beatrix Potter's life had so much sadness in it. She obviously got through it with as a good an attitude as she could muster. A stuffy mother and the loss of a love would have made lesser people give up, but she did what Virginia Woolf recommended all women do, which was to get a place of her own, and then she went further and started buying up the property around her farm so that it wouldn't be snatched up by developers, and then she gave it back to the nation as preserved land. I love that women think to do good things like that.
I've got a copy of the complete works of Beatrix Potter. I love her watercolor paintings. Now I'm really looking forward to my watercolor class this Saturday.
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