Godsford Park
October 22nd, 2004
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Because Borders was having a book discount if I get a DVD, I picked up Godsford Park. When I first saw it – must have been two years ago now – I was enraptured and saw it twice even though I was jobless and my funds dwindling (but then I am never careful with money). It’s around a murder mystery but not on it: there is so much gossip, snobbery, sarcasm and generous display of household realities. Because there are so many characters moving in and out, the film makes the audience feel completely invisible. You hear both the upper and the lower floor going-ons, like a child evesdropping unknown outside grown-ups door. The murder mystery bit is not thrilling – sort of by the way as a doorway into the characters who populate the country manor. A deeply satisfying movie.
