![]() Miss Pettigrew (Frances McDormand) is a penniless nanny, currently outof a job. great movie if you like your comedy a little faster, but with no onewho's eating anything disgusting for a laugh. Amy Adams and Frances McDormand have a wonderful interplay, both sidesof the romantic slide: young, desired, older, having past love by. That alone is a brilliant device, tried by many,mastered rarely, especially in period. (there are a couple of slips into later jazz styles, very minor- musicologists may be annoyed - but no one else will notice) The musicbecomes one of the characters of the plot, interacting almost as muchas the actors do. And the composer keptthe sound from the era almost flawlessly: big band jazz of the late1930's. Themusic moves the action a great deal of the time. One of the unusual parts of this film worth noting is the score. Unlike today's comedy, based on the outrageous, the actors in thisgenre have to know how to deliver the lines, keep the pace. Comedybased upon timing, script, and coincidence (the "screwball" part) isvery rare. This type of movie has simply not been done for 40 or 50 years.
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