The Summer House (Clothes in the Wardrobe)


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The Summer House (Clothes in the Wardrobe)

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Boy meets Girl in Egypt. Girl is profoundly affected and returns to England where she apathetically becomes engaged to the 'boy' next door. A thoroughly unsuited couple. Lili, an old family friend arrives for the nuptials and enchants all and sundry, including the wife of one of her previous liaisons. Lili sees what the groom and the brides mother refuse to see and manages to resolve the situation to the brides great satisfaction.




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    21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
    4.0 out of 5 stars Holds your interests, March 14, 2004
    By A Customer
    This review is from: Summer House [VHS] (VHS Tape)
    This movie is a mysterious little number starring Jeanne Moreau, an excellent French actress with many decades of remarkable work on her resume. She essentially carries the movie in a laughable, moving and over-the-top character. The story is a little confusing on first viewing (due to flashbacks to Egypt that are a little hard to follow, at first), but stick with it. If you like strong, repressed and hopeful characters mixed into a story of lost love and an expectation of a lackluster future that needs to be fought by a soon-to-be married woman, this might appeal to you. One reviewer expected Enchanted April and wrote a horrible review about this movie, based upon that expectation. The two movies are radically different, and that reviewer missed the mark. Recommendations given by Amazon that "if you like this, you might like that" do not mean to imply the movies are of the same exact nature. It only means to imply that it is of the same general format, like one mafia... Read more
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    13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
    4.0 out of 5 stars summer house, November 26, 2001
    By A Customer
    This review is from: Summer House [VHS] (VHS Tape)
    Charming story of a friendship between an older woman with a past and a repressed younger woman who fears being trapped in a conventional life. The character Lily (Jeanne Moreau) is unforgettable. Excellent British cast. Similar in feeling to "Tea With Mussolini" and "Enchanted April".
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    7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars "I see God and Satan as an old married couple.", November 2, 2005
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    This review is from: The Summer House (Clothes in the Wardrobe) (VHS Tape)
    When Mother Joseph makes this statement to the nineteen-year-old Margaret, she could not have appreciated the irony that in just a few months, Margaret would be planning to marry Syl, a forty-year-old, pompous dolt whom she does not love. Emotionally devastated by something that happened to her in Egypt, where she recently spent six months, the devout Margaret is na�ve and pliable, allowing her divorced mother Monica to make all the wedding plans. When a school friend of her mother's, the half-Egyptian Lili arrives for the wedding "festivities," she completely upsets the status quo but offers a lifeline to Margaret. Loud, flamboyant, colorful, and exhausting, Lili plans to give Margaret a wedding gift that she will never forget.

    Based on Alice Thomas Ellis's trilogy, The Summer House, of which Clothes in the Wardrobe is the first novel (followed by Skeleton in the Cupboard and Fly in the Ointment), Director Waris Hussein's film captures the same wry tone and ironic humor... Read more
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