
Shirley Valentine
Review created: 02/02/08(updated 05/08/08)
Shirley Valentine the film, is a pleasant piece of middle-aged escapeism, and the character is equally a version of someone many of us have moments wishing we might be like.
You will enjoy this film if you have a taste for Greece and wine and sunsets and dreams of escaping from the mundane life at home.
There were moments when the script might have been better adjusted a little: "here I am a housewife of 42" when she looks hardly a day under 52 at least; and the scenes as a twenty year old newlywed were even more brave... thank God her as a schoolgirl was passed to a young actress!
But I saw this when it came out in 1989, and enjoyed it far more this time, and that says a lot... was even sometimes almost in a tearful empathy at the beauty of Shirley's new life.
Just sit back and think of England!
Mark D Phillips........
Review ID: 10000000005348461

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