Downton Abbey II – Una nuova era, basato sull'omonima e popolare serie TV britannica, ambientata all’inizio del XX Secolo nello Yorkshire. https://www.cinefilos.it/tutto-film/recensioni/downton-abbey-ii-una-nuova-era-517854
Nel lungometraggio, diretto da Simon Curtis, vedremo ancora una volta intrecciarsi le vicende della famiglia Crawley con quelle della servitù. Mentre la villa è in pieno subbuglio per i preparativi del matrimonio tra Tom Branson ( Allen Leech) e Lucy Smith (Tuppence Middleton), ex cameriera, Lady Violet Crawley Contessa di Grantham (Maggie Smith) riceve in eredità una tenuta nel sud della Francia. Una volta riunita la famiglia l’anziana Violet rende noto che la villa in Francia le è stata donata in gioventù da un uomo con il quale ebbe una storia d’amore. Ora che il suo giovane amore è passato a miglior vita Lady Violet decide di recarvisi per un soggiorno, accompagnata da alcuni membri della famiglia e dei servitori come Mr. Carson e Mrs Hughes. Parallelamente all’interno della tenuta a Downton Abbey si respira aria di modernità: il produttore Jack Barber decide di girare un film all’interno del lussuoso palazzo con l’appoggio di Lady Mary. La famiglia Crawley dovrà fare in conti con gli intrighi e misteri del passato
00:00The main sort of, in a sense, permanent adjustment was that it was clear that Mary was really taking over as the boss at Downton and rather taking the reins from her father, which is a theme we go on with.
00:19She's very much in charge. I mean, it's a courteous arrangement. They're not rivals in any sense.
00:26But one of the jobs of being in a hereditary business is to accept that it is hereditary.
00:35And there comes a time when your usefulness is diminished and the moment has come to hand on.
00:42And I think that we played in the first film and we play in the second.
00:47The comedy I like is real life comedy.
00:54And in all our lives, we all know people who are funnier than other people that we know.
01:00And they have the gift of making phrases that are funny, but they don't take you out of the real situation.
01:08They're funny to a degree, but they're not all about Whitehall farce.
01:14So you can return to the truth of the narrative situation without any difficulty.
01:19And that is, I think, the level of comedy that sits well in a kind of ongoing family saga, which is really what Downton is.
01:29I was lucky with Maggie Smith because I'd worked with her before.
01:38And the character I wrote that she played in Gosford Park was quite similar to Violet Grantham in Downton.
01:47She's a very rewarding actress because she has a great gift.
01:54Well, she has many gifts, but she has a great gift that she can be very funny one minute and two minutes later have you crying.
02:02And she does it without changing into someone else.
02:06Lesser actors turn into someone else when they shift gear, but she doesn't.
02:11She remains very true to herself of her own character, and she can get laughs as that character, but also tears.
02:24I'm part of a dying breed who believes that one of the jobs, at least, of the entertainment industry is to entertain.
02:34We're a diminishing number, but I want people to watch Downton and enjoy it.
02:43I want them to go to this movie and have a nice time and laugh and cry and go out and have a decent dinner and get back home and feel they've had a good evening.
02:53That that suits me. That's my that's my goal.
02:57And if people say, but is it enough for you just to entertain?
03:02The answer is yes. And and, you know, I hope every now and then I make them think about the disparity of background in an unequal society.
03:15Or I make them think of the difficulties of being homosexual in a period when it was still illegal or, you know, we touch on things.
03:23But that's not the prime purpose. The prime purpose is to give them a really good evening.
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