costume drama

  • SUMMER IN FEBRUARY

    Based on a novel that was based on a true story about love and lust amongst some about-to-be famous artists in Edwardian Britain this pretty period costume drama is the most tedious of affairs. Essentially the tale of A J Munnings, who would go on to not only become Britain’s most famous painter of horses but…

  • LEONIE

    This is the true story of Leonie Gilbert : a fiercely independent American woman who constantly defied taboos at the turn of the 20th Century when she became the Editor, then Lover, then Mother of the child of Japanese poet Yone Nogucci in New York. And then when he abandoned her and his son to…

  • Cheerful Weather For The Wedding

    Cheerful Weather For The Wedding

    But not such good spirits for the family or the guests in this vacuous trite period British costume drama that never rose above being anything other than grossly irritating and very tiresome indeed.   The year is 1923 and its a glorious early Fall day at the Thatcham’s Family’s large Country House.  It’s just a…