Even olfaktorisch this woman was a challenge. Only two or three times it has used in all the time the bath of Alan Bennett – the brushed for hours in panic. Miss Shepherd, the mysterious, pungent Lady in the van, it was a phenomenon, a legend. The British writer and playwright she has received many awards, including an article in the “London Review of Books”, later a radio play, a play and now in the film: Bennett himself wrote the screenplay for this “fairly true story”, as in biasing means. Yes, they were in fact, the elderly lady who one day with their rickety van in London’s Camden Town showed up and stayed at the Gloucester Crescent before those same houses, in which the affluent Old Left lived, artists, theater people, writers, and the widow the composer Vaughan Williams (Frances de la Tour) -. people like Bennett just
the quirky Miss Shepherd was there to streetscape. Occasionally they broke for noise pollution (to the in their ears, especially the recorders traktierende offspring of residents helped) the handbrake, shifted to the location of their cluttered Gefährts ever road down until it ran aground in front of house number 23, Bennetts address. When police her term parking but forbade there, offered the author – in this country mainly because of its queen novella “The Uncommon Reader” known – her his driveway on. For a few days. Shepherd remained 15 years until her death in 1989.
Miss Shepherd, that’s Maggie Smith, 1999 acclaimed stage play, and now in front of the camera. The most peculiar tramp since the invention of homelessness. It’s in various layers of the clothing collection, defends the world with incorruptible-a glare from, never smiling, never thanked, remains stubborn as no good and stunned with exquisite vocabulary and perfect form gruff manners. “I am a sick woman who desperately needed assistance”: To learn Bennett know and is equal to invited to push the cart with
The now 81-year-old Maggie Smith gives the tragicomic vagabond – the young. years was a promising pianist and came to a supposedly self-inflicted fatal accident out of the path, as the flashbacks reveal – a fabulous Noblesse. She never abandons Miss Shepherd ridicule. The British “Telegraph” celebrated the film as the “Maggiest of all Maggie Smith Performances” their later years. Smith, Helen Mirren, Judi Dench – the British have three of these before aura and often amusing presence only as vibrating screen divas. . Enviable
The writer appears in a double role: the authors-ego, the timid owner
“The Lady in the Van” is Bennetts third collaboration with director Nicholas Hytner. The two celebrated with “The Madness of King George” (1994) and the adaptation of the Broadway play “The History Boys” (2006) cinema successes and go again to play it safe. On the one hand, by posting those sly, enhanced by the classical soundtrack humorig used clay, which (in German at Wagenbach published) stories also makes Bennetts this country to longsellers. On the other hand, by appearing several cast members from the elite student-comedy of 2006 in Gloucester Crescent in supporting roles, to Alex Jennings as twofold Alan Bennett. A dual role as a permanent duel: here the timid private-I of the bachelor who eventually has his quiet coming out, there the gent to writing material writer-ego – an installed specially for the film picture puzzle, true Bennetts authors motto: “Who writes, talks to himself. “
The real Miss Shepherd was not only bizarre, it spread far-right slogans
With so much comic relief have Bennett and Hytner confidently a bit can take more risks. The real Miss Shepherd considered himself the better Iron Lady, founded her own party, non-ultra right wing slogans and worried that if they did Thatcher replaced only once, must be ruled by Downing Street and not from their van. As Stephen Frears heard about the film, he should have said it was about the same as you turn a biopic about Goebbels. Miss Shepherd in the film, however organized only harmless patriotic nonsense.
Yet one might their respectful commanding replica “Do not sweetheart me!”, With which it has a cheerful vegetable sellers in the barriers, on the spot in the own vocabulary assume. True, a good mood is overrated.
In 7 Berlin cinemas. OV in the Cinestar Sony Center.
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