BBBB.5
(out of 5)
Bridget Jones fans will definitely love this influential and inspired film. It stars a fabulous Lynn Redgrave as an eternally optimistic girl with a bouncy personality and a constant sense that she’s just a few steps off rhythm from everyone else. Her life is influenced by her more callous best friend (Charlotte Rampling), an older gentleman who takes a serious liking to her (James Mason) and the prospect of romance from a new young man in her life (Alan Bates). Also starring Redgrave’s real-life mother Rachel Kempson (who didn’t appear on screen with her other daughter Vanessa until 1998’s Deja Vu), this film is a pure delight.
Columbia Pictures Corporation, Everglades Productions
Directed by Silvio Narizzano
Screenplay by Margaret Forster, Peter Nichols, based on the novel by Margaret Forster
Cinematography by Kenneth Higgins
Produced by Robert A. Goldston, Otto Plaschkes
Music by Alexander Faris
Production Design by Tony Woollard
Costume Design by Mary Quant
Film Editing by John Bloom
