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Mood:
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- Master and ServantPolice InvestigationSocial DifferencesMurderWho Done ItCrimesDeadlyLaw Enforcement more...
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Genres:
- DramaMysteryPeriodIndependent
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century30s
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- EnglandCountrysideIndoors
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Gosford Park , 2001
English
UK, USA, Italy
Profile of Gosford Park
The mood of Gosford Park is clever, stylized, and witty. The plot centers around masters and servants, a whodunit, and social differences. It is a drama, independent, and period movie. Stylistically, Gosford Park features an all-star cast, stars an ensemble cast, and is talky. In approach, it is realistic. It takes place, at least partly, indoors and in the countryside. Gosford Park is set in England. It happens in the 1930s. The movie is known for being an Oscar winner and critically acclaimed.
Summary of Gosford Park
In GOSFORD PARK, Robert Altman explores the English class system and master-servant relations via his preferred modus operandi of multiple characters and intertwining storylines, which he achieved so brilliantly in NASHVILLE. Featuring an all-star British ensemble cast, the film recalls both THE RULES OF THE GAME and THE REMAINS OF THE DAY, with a midpoint shift to an Agatha Christie whodunit. In November 1932, a phalanx of moneyed guests arrives for a weekend shooting party at the estate of Sir William McCordle (Michael Gambon) and Lady Sylvia (Kristin Scott Thomas). Mary (Kelly Macdonald), a fresh-faced, naïve new maid accompanies the sniping Countess of Trentham (Maggie Smith), and is shown the ropes by the house's worldly head housemaid, Elsie (Emily Watson). While the masters engage in various financial and sexual intrigues upstairs, the world downstairs has its own curiosities--namely, the predatory valet to a Hollywood producer, Henry Denton (Ryan Phillippe), and the mysterious, cagey servant, Robert Parks (Clive Owen). Mary soon discovers that the image of servants living vicariously through their masters is a false one, and that the upstairs-downstairs worlds are often shockingly interwoven. With GOSFORD PARK, Altman delivers a fascinating, blackly comic look at the treacherous yet poignant gamesmanship between the classes.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK, USA, Italy |
| Release date: | 4 January 2002 |
| Runtime: | 137 min |
| Awards: | Academy Awards |
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as William McCordle
as Sylvia McCordle
as Constance Trentham
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Critics Reviews
Rolling Stone
Gosford Park abounds in scenes to savor. It's a feast, and one of Altman's best.
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- by: Peter Travers
The New York Times
A virtuoso ensemble piece to rival the director's "Nashville" and "Short Cuts" in its masterly interweaving of multiple characters and subplots.
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- by: Stephen Holden
Users Reviews
one of my all time favourite films. Exploring the genres of the Britsh murder mystery and the whole upstairs/downstairs regime of British class systems. I find this a funny, dramatic and thoughtful film that works on so many levels. If you want an...
- 08.June.2009
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- by: lenoir
- lenoir rated this movie
9/10Amazing
I'd rather have hot coals imbedded into my eye sockets than sit through the first 30 minutes (I watched) again. It is an overwhelmingly humorless, beige and pretentious film.
- 23.March.2009
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- by: slipknotnyc
- slipknotnyc rated this movie
2/10Bad
