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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Charlotte Gray (2001) is a film based on the novel by Sebastian Faulkes. Starring Cate Blanchett it is a fantastic film set in war torn France. This film is an interesting watch and interesting for showing what life was like in Vichy controlled France during the 2nd World War. Charlotte Gray played by Blanchett travels from here home town of St. Andrews, Scotland, to take up her role as a medical receptionist in London. On the train she encounters a very English gentleman who spots her reading a French language novel. After a brief chat she awakes in London with the contract details for the man left inside her book. At a social function she ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Over the last couple of weeks the weather has been so bad around here that we have found ourselves catching up on some movies on video that we missed at the cinema. And so it came about that we watched Charlotte Grey. I had read an article by Sebastian Faulks where he gave his reaction to the movie. The author felt that Cate Blanchett did a good job of portraying his heroine but really didn’t offer any further insight into the quality of the movie. I decided there and then to read the book first and then see the movie but like so many things in life it never came to pass. The plot is fairly straightforward. Grey (Blanchett) is a young woman from ...  Read the complete review