Post by Breezy on Mar 6, 2002 18:12:39 GMT -5
The official site is:
www.gosfordparkmovie.com/start.html
It is nominated for 7 Academy Award Nominations:
Best Picture
Best Director: Robert Altman
Best Supporting Actress: Helen Mirren (Mrs. Wilson)
Best Supporting Actress: Maggie Smith (Constance, Countess of Trentham)
Best Original Screenplay: Jullian Fellowes
Best Art Direction
Best Costume Design
Synopsis:
Robert Altman, one of Americas most distinctive filmmakers journeys to England for the first time to create a unique film mosaic with an outstanding ensemble cast.
It is November, 1932, Gosford Park is the magnificent country estate to which Sir William McCordle, and his wife, Lady Sylvia, gather relations and friends for a shooting party. They have invited an eclectic group including a countess, a World War I hero, the British matinee idol Ivor Norvello, and an American film producer who makes Charlie Chan movies. As the guests assemble, in the gilded dressing rooms above, their personal maids and valets swell the ranks of the house servants in teeming kitchens and the corridors below-stairs.
But, all is not as it seems: neither amongst the bejewelled guests lunching and dining at their considerable leisure, nor the attic bedrooms and stark work stations where the servants labor for the comfort of their employers. Part comedy of manners and part mystery, the film is finally a moving portrait of events that bridge generations, class, sex, tragic personal history, and culminate in murder. (Or, is it two murders?)
Ultimately revealing the intricate relations of the above and below-stairs worlds with great clarity. Gosford Park illuminates a soceity and a way of life quickly coming to an end.
RATED: R (Some Language & Brief Sexuality)
www.gosfordparkmovie.com/start.html
It is nominated for 7 Academy Award Nominations:
Best Picture
Best Director: Robert Altman
Best Supporting Actress: Helen Mirren (Mrs. Wilson)
Best Supporting Actress: Maggie Smith (Constance, Countess of Trentham)
Best Original Screenplay: Jullian Fellowes
Best Art Direction
Best Costume Design
Synopsis:
Robert Altman, one of Americas most distinctive filmmakers journeys to England for the first time to create a unique film mosaic with an outstanding ensemble cast.
It is November, 1932, Gosford Park is the magnificent country estate to which Sir William McCordle, and his wife, Lady Sylvia, gather relations and friends for a shooting party. They have invited an eclectic group including a countess, a World War I hero, the British matinee idol Ivor Norvello, and an American film producer who makes Charlie Chan movies. As the guests assemble, in the gilded dressing rooms above, their personal maids and valets swell the ranks of the house servants in teeming kitchens and the corridors below-stairs.
But, all is not as it seems: neither amongst the bejewelled guests lunching and dining at their considerable leisure, nor the attic bedrooms and stark work stations where the servants labor for the comfort of their employers. Part comedy of manners and part mystery, the film is finally a moving portrait of events that bridge generations, class, sex, tragic personal history, and culminate in murder. (Or, is it two murders?)
Ultimately revealing the intricate relations of the above and below-stairs worlds with great clarity. Gosford Park illuminates a soceity and a way of life quickly coming to an end.
RATED: R (Some Language & Brief Sexuality)