Dear readers, It seems that every week I report back saying that life has been stressful and the time to read and reflect is near non-existent. I’m afraid this week has been much of the same. More sleep deprivation, more colds, accumulated tiredness. I was going to write a full review of Robert Hugh Benson’s
I've just rewatched "The Browning Version" with Albert Finney and Greta Scacchi. It's a 90s remake of a 50s film that featured Michael Redgrave and a script written by Terrence Rattigan. I'd recommend watching the 90s version and then the 1951 version.
It's a film about an embittered public school teacher who has lost his moorings, alienated his wife and feels his life as a classics teacher has been all for nought. A young student's gift of Browning's translation of Aeschylus' Agamemnon acts as an epiphany. Highly recommended!
(Oddly enough Matthew Modine has a part in this film and Stranger Things.)
**The 1951 performance by Michael Redgrave is a tour de force. The Albert Finney version is top grade as well, but not as gloomy in regards to the unfaithfulness of a spouse.
I've just rewatched "The Browning Version" with Albert Finney and Greta Scacchi. It's a 90s remake of a 50s film that featured Michael Redgrave and a script written by Terrence Rattigan. I'd recommend watching the 90s version and then the 1951 version.
It's a film about an embittered public school teacher who has lost his moorings, alienated his wife and feels his life as a classics teacher has been all for nought. A young student's gift of Browning's translation of Aeschylus' Agamemnon acts as an epiphany. Highly recommended!
(Oddly enough Matthew Modine has a part in this film and Stranger Things.)
**The 1951 performance by Michael Redgrave is a tour de force. The Albert Finney version is top grade as well, but not as gloomy in regards to the unfaithfulness of a spouse.