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Spring 2003
Calendar Girls movie review
The local chapter of the Women's Institute in a North Yorkshire town is a bastion of banal presentations and mediocre fund raising. Last year's calendar raised £75.60.
When Annie Clarke's husband dies of leukemia, she proposes that the WI raise the money for a sofa for the family area of the hospital by doing a tasteful nude calendar of WI members. Her husband had said that plants were the most glorious in the latter stages of their life.
The project has many challenges: to convince older women to embrace their looks and take part in the calendar, to convince others that older women have their own charms, to convince the hidebound WI that this is not a terrible idead, to find a tasteful photographer to do the work.
Movie poster, Calendar Girls
They dropped everything for a good cause.
The first part of the film is the challenges of creating the calendar, and the rest is about the subsequent media storm and the repercussions in families.
Calendar Girls is an interesting, humorous, and well-written look at how we judge ageing, especially among women. It's about how we see ourselves and how we can celebrate our un-reconstructed selves in a world of scientific beauty potions and freshening-up surgery.
In the tradition of the best of British.
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by Ali Kayn |
Just the facts:Title: Calendar Girls (2003) The Players: Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, John Alderton, Linda Bassett, Annette Crosbie, Ciarán Hinds, Official website: IMDb entry For session times of current films, use the cinema listings on the Movie links page. For scheduled release dates, see the coming attractions section. For more information about this movie, check out the internet movie database. |
Published in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 
Filed: 1-Oct-2003