Charlotte Gray (DVD)

I was looking forward to watching Charlotte Gray. It was a film I'd wanted to see at the cinema, but hadn't got round to. I ended up disappointed by it. It wasn't truly awful I was able to watch it without thinking 'god when is this going to end'. It was just not as good as I thought it would be. It?s hard to think what went wrong with it. It's got all the ingredients for a good film: wartime drama, love interest, secret missions. However, it was strangely flat in a lot of places. Charlotte Gray (Cate Blanchet) is a young scottish woman working at a surgery in wartime London. Whilst returning to London from a holiday in Scotland ...

As I stood at the bus stop I could see the eager young thing approach me, yellow bucket in hand and a smile that suggested that she hadn’t yet had life spit her in full in the face: “Would you like to Help the Aged?” she chirped. I moved forward as the bus approached the stop, my mum waving from the front seat: “I already am, I’m taking her to the pictures” And so it was on yet another cold Edinburgh day that I found myself with me old mum going to the UCI cinema to see “Charlotte Gray”. Based on the book of the same name by Sebastian Foulkes, it stars the very lovely Cate ...

When Charlotte Gray meets and falls in love with a young airman, Peter, she should have her entire life to look forward to. However, it is World War 2 and her fiance very soon goes to France on a mission and goes missing. Determined not to give up hope, Charlotte applies for the Secret Service and is sent to France herself; ostensibly to help the war effort, but also to try and find out what has happened to Peter. Will her personal feelings get in the way of her job, putting her colleagues lives at risk? And will she find Peter? Knowing that this film is based on the book of the same name by Sebastian Faulks should have encouraged me to watch this film ...