The Lady in the Van (2015) Sony

[samdvd1]

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Lady-...lu-ray/144290/

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[Foggy]

Watched this yesterday. It was all fine but I won't be picking it up. It just felt like something BBC would make to put over the Christmas period on Boxing Day or New Year's Eve over something theatrical.

[samdvd1]

I saw it on Friday. Thought Maggie Smith was excellent and I enjoyed the humour but I absolutely hated the part of the ending at

[Show spoiler]the cemetery where she floats up into gods arms. It should really have ended with the funeral

. Overall, I gave it a solid 7/10.

[Foggy]

Ah I thought that was a great scene, seemed to be dropping it's stern sordid exterior for a sappy ending and it stopped itself. It's just a shame the final two scenes following it felt a bit twee and sentimental, especially when they wheeled out the actual Alan Bennett and revealed the crew filming, again, it felt like something a TV special would do over an actual film.

[Harwin123]

Originally Posted by Foggy

it felt like something a TV special would do over an actual film.

Which is why i can't wait to watch this next Christmas on the BBC when i'm a little squiffy and probably won't mind it as much…

[CelestialAgent]

Another recent Bennett adaptation, Allelujah, gets a UK Blu-ray from Pathe/WB at the end of the month.