Free is a very good price

Thanks to Neel and his love for sneak previews I found myself with passes to see Miss Potter this evening. For all those times I've walked out of a movie theater wanting not only my money but my two hours back this was wonderfully refreshing.

From the producers:
Beatrix Potter has delighted generations of children with her books. But she kept her own private life locked carefully away. Oscar-winning star Renee Zellweger is now bringing her secret story to the screen in "Miss Potter," the first film directed by Chris Noonan since his charming 1995 movie, Babe. It is set in the high summer days of late Victorian and Edwardian England, during which Beatrix develops her natural skills as artist and story-teller. When she finally publishes her debut book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, she becomes a writing celebrity. It also leads to courtship and her first love with publisher Norman Warne, played by Ewan McGregor. Their relationship and his marriage proposal in July, 1905, was to change Beatrix's life for ever.

I can see why it would have a limited audience though. It had the romance and charm of Emma, the breathtaking landscapes and period costumes of Anne of Green Gables and some ahead-of-her-time feminist thinking that makes it a lovely film for today's unmarried women of a certain age. Ewan McGregor didn't hurt either.

Two very enthusiastic thumbs up. Especially since no one in my theatre left as soon as the credits started rolling since we were happy to watch the slide show of her illustrations.