Review of From Time to Time (2009) by Mike M — 17 Sep 2011
Fellowes exhibits the well-meaning naivete of those empire-builders who retired to their drawing rooms at night to watch Chaplin two-reelers while their labourers did the back-breaking work in the fields: here, householders and domestics are joined in blissful co-existence - see Smith's cosy kitchen-table chats with Pauline Collins' housekeeper Mrs.
Tweedie - and captains in the Navy smuggle little black boys in barrels across the Atlantic so as to teach us valuable lessons in tolerance. I credit Fellowes with the unfashionable idea of trying to revive the stand-alone family movie along "Railway Children" lines, but this is deeply patronising in its execution, both written and shot in such soft-focus that it scarcely seems to exist.
With Timothy Spall as a gardener called Mr. Boggis, inevitably.
This review of From Time to Time (2009) was written by Mike M on 17 Sep 2011.
From Time to Time has generally received positive reviews.
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