When is easy virtue set

We take your privacy seriously. No spam. See our privacy policy here. You can unsubscribe at any time. Intrigued by the tales her grandmother told of vampires, witches, and ghosts as a girl, she's always been drawn to the fantastic. Currently, she co-runs this lovely blog and works as a YA Librarian.

More posts by this author. How did you decide on Flintham Hall? Was there one aspect of the house in particular that seemed just right? The whole reason I went there was the orangery, or conservatory. It is exactly Mrs. And it really seemed to be of a piece with the house. The drawing room is actually double-height, and has a ga llery running around it. The core of the play is easily found in the movie, but this is little more faithful than Hitchcock's dialogue-challenged version.

Coward's central theme, about the hypocrisy of crusty British society, is presented as effectively here as in the stage version, but it has lost some of its relevance over the years.

What was topical in the s, before the second World War forever re-arranged the U. Elliott does nothing to re-invigorate the themes for today's audiences, so they, like the story-line, remain stuck in the s. Elliott adds a few "touches" that aren't entirely successful. The soundtrack is comprised primarily of jazz and big band sounds appropriate to the setting, but the filmmaker slips in some re-tooled mixes of recent pop songs.

The film as a whole feels a little on the light side, but there's as much a place in art house movies for none-too-serious fare as there is in multiplexes. He finds a kindred spirit in Larita and encourages her opposition to the family and their judgmental upper-class values.

Easy Virtue is a romantic comedy that captures the atmosphere of s England. The story is told with some superb acting, particularly by Kristin Scott Thomas. It is aimed at an adult audience and lacks interest for children. The main messages from this movie are not to make instant judgements about people and to listen to the whole story before forming opinions. Values in this movie that you might wish to reinforce with your children include courage, assertiveness and strength of character.