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Juliet Stevenson,
Alan Rickman,
Bill Paterson,
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Anthony Minghella
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: MGM
: Foreign, Ghosts, Fantasy, UK
: 107 min.
: English, Spanish, French
: English, Spanish, French
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Pianist Nina (Juliet Stevenson) and cellist Jamie (Alan Rickman) played together and loved together. When they weren't making music with each other, they made love. It was an idyllic romantic and musical partnership, and when Jamie dies, Nina takes it very hard. The condolences of friends and relatives don't help much when everything in the apartment they shared reminds her of him. She's a real basket case, and can barely get on with her life. One day, while plunking dejectedly on the piano, Nina looks up to discover Jamie, in ghostly form, lively as ever and just as loving. With a few new wrinkles (such as parties which include Jamie's newfound ghost friends), they resume living their relationship almost as before. Nina's friends are puzzled at her change from suicidal despondency to giddy cheefulness, but Jamie has pledged Nina to secrecy about their renewed relationship. For that reason, she cannot find any good excuses for not responding to the romantic advances of a living man, Mark (Michael Maloney). Before long, she will have to choose between the two of them. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
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| Thinking man's "Ghost"
by Texan99
September 5, 2010 - 1:36 PM PDT
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1 out of 1 members found this review helpful
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| On my list of movies I'll re-watch repeatedly. Juliet Stevenson is a treasure. The director treats the ghost-lover Jamie (the pitch-perfect Alan Rickman) matter-of-factly, so we wonder whether he's only Nina's vividly imagined metaphor for the refusal to accept loss, or a real spirit helping his surviving lover learn to move on. Wrenchingly sad, wildly funny, and passionately romantic. |
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