Cheerful Weather for the Wedding

    Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
    2012

    Synopsis

    England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that accompany such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover from the previous summer, who throws her feelings into turmoil. But Dolly's mother will not allow her carefully laid plans for her daughter's future to be threatened...

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    Cast

    • Felicity JonesDolly Thatcham
    • Luke TreadawayJoseph Patten
    • Elizabeth McGovernMrs. Thatcham
    • Mackenzie CrookDavid Dakin
    • Ellie KendrickKitty Thatcham
    • Zoë TapperEvelyn Graham
    • Julian WadhamUncle Bob
    • Barbara FlynnAunt Bella
    • Fenella WoolgarNancy Dakin
    • Olly AlexanderTom

    Recommendations

    • 80

      Time Out

      Rice's style is pitched somewhere between Merchant Ivory and Wes Anderson, favoring shots of sad, pretty people looking bereft in elaborately elegant rooms. But it's Jones and Treadaway, both seething volcanoes trapped behind artfully pallid faces, who turn what could've been a candy-coated comedy of manners into a complex, melancholic farce.
    • 70

      The Hollywood Reporter

      A sustained balancing act between dry upper-crust cynicism and pent-up passions, Donald Rice's Cheerful Weather for the Wedding maintains its uneasy stasis long enough to frustrate some romance-hungry viewers while tantalizing those for whom withheld pleasure is the whole point.
    • 67

      The A.V. Club

      Without a source as rich as Jane Austen to draw on, Cheerful Weather feels incomplete, caroming off previous stories without forging its own way.
    • 60

      New York Daily News

      With costumes taking precedence over character, the movie ultimately seems more concerned with atmosphere than action.
    • 55

      NPR

      The comic relief, an attempt to buoy the sinking feeling of Dolly and Joseph's difficulties, steals away the emotional weight of their story. The dominance of the madcap side of the film's split personality lays an airy veneer over Dolly and Joseph's woes, making them seem inconsequential - as unsubstantial as an observation about wedding-day weather.
    • 50

      Variety

      A costumer that's well named for being pleasant and conventional but little more.
    • 50

      Village Voice

      The costumes are gorgeous, and the settings are plush, but the acting is merely serviceable, and the film lacks either the wit or the energy of its predecessors. Long before it ends, you find yourself indifferent to the fate of the mismatched lovebirds or anyone else in the tale.
    • 42

      The Playlist

      The film may help "Downton Abbey" fanatics looking to kill a little time in that era but holds little cinematic appeal for the rest of us.

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