Shadowlands (1993)
by Richard Attenborough
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Actor: Andrew Seear, Julian Fellowes, Michael Denison, Roddy Maude-Roxby, Tim McMullanDirector: Richard Attenborough
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Running Time: 133 minutes
Release Date: 1995-01-31
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Studio: Hbo Home Video
VHS Movie Reviews of Shadowlands (1993)
Movie Review: Beautiful and Infuriating
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie is beautiful and has lovely acting and gorgeous sets and even terrific writing.
The directing, as usual with Attenborough, is first-rate.
But Lewis is an infuriating person.
That's partly the movie's subject: Lewis is SO repressed, SO insulated, SO narcissistic, that it takes a very aggressive woman and a tragedy to (partly) penetrate his shell.
He wrote a book called "Surprised by Joy." This is a reference to Wordsworth; but it seems perfectly apt--and horrifying.
You get the sense from this movie that Lewis was so cut off from the emotions that anything--even pain--was better than the numbness in which he spent most of his life.
It's sad, and it's pointless.
Oddly--or perhaps not oddly at all--Lewis erects Pain into his First Principle of Theology: for Lewis, God does not want us to be happy, He wants us to Suffer, because by Suffering we learn to love.
It is pitiful that Lewis had to suffer to learn love.
Hard to know why Joy would love him.
You don't know whether to laugh or scream at him.
Great movie about a pitiable person.
Summary of Shadowlands (1993)
This emotionally moving romantic drama was adapted by William Nicholson from his own acclaimed play, based upon the real-life romance (during the 1950s) between the British writer C.S. Lewis and a divorced American poet named Joy Gresham. Best known for writing The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, Lewis (Anthony Hopkins) is living comfortably as a respected Oxford don, his academic lifestyle a kind of shell protecting him from the emotional risk of love. Joy Gresham (Debra Winger) arrives at Oxford as an avid admirer of Lewis's writing, and the safety of his collegiate routine is quickly disrupted when Lewis realizes that he's fallen deeply and unexpectedly in love. Their courtship is uniquely engaging; he's shy and uncertain, she's outspoken and bold. But when Joy is diagnosed with cancer, Lewis's Christian faith is put to the test--he cannot fathom why their happiness together would be so drastically challenged. Together, they find a way to accept and honor the time they have shared together, and under the sensitive direction of Richard Attenborough, Shadowlands arrives at a conclusion that is both heartbreaking and uplifting at the same time. Hopkins and Winger are equally superb in this absorbing story of personal and spiritual transformation--a story previously filmed for British television in 1985, with Joss Ackland and Claire Bloom. --Jeff ShannonDrama VHS Video
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