![]() ![]() The man in her bed, Phil (Tom Payne), a junior impresario about to cast the lead in his next musical, is not the owner of the flat. What she first encounters around that corner is Delysia - as in Delicious - Lafosse, Adams’ effervescent take on a Depression-era, self-absorbed actress desperate enough to sleep her way to the top.Īs Pettigrew enters a lavishly appointed penthouse for an interview as a “social secretary” - a position for which she has no experience - those sleeping arrangements have tripped Delysia up. But an extreme makeover is just around the corner. Nobody does disheveled and mousy like McDormand. Miss Guinevere Pettigrew, fired again for a personality clash with her latest employer, hits the streets homeless, broke and dazzlingly disheveled and mousy. A clutch of musical standards from that era by Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer and Yip Harburg wrap the package in a nostalgic glow. ![]() The Focus Features release, an enjoyable as it is forgettable, should find enthusiasm among older audiences in specialized venues - those who can either remember 1939 or at least imagine it. ![]() ![]() The film, adapted by David Magee and Simon Beaufoy from a newly rediscovered 1939 novel by Winifred Watson, comes at you in a whirlwind of comic coincidences, sentimental yearnings, amorous betrayals and rapid costume changes. ![]()
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