Entertainment Reviews:
Box Office - 12/01/1997
"...Rickman has brought the cloistered stage play to vibrant life...his work with the actors is universally superb..."
Rolling Stone - 02/05/1998
"...[Law and Thompson] give touchingly true performances..."
Sight and Sound - 01/01/1998
"...Ravishing, resonant images.....What is most striking about Rickman's debut is his control of mood, delicately teasing out the metaphorical possibilities of freezing and ice..."
USA Today - 12/26/1997
"...The actresses share looks and even body language..."
Entertainment Weekly - 07/17/1998
"...A poetic, affecting film....[Law and] Thompson transcend..." --
Rating: B+
New York Times - 12/23/1997
"...[The film] luxuriously drinks in a magnificent desolation that conjures up somber thoughts of mortality and human loss..."
Chicago Sun-Times - 01/16/1998
"...Phyllida Law and Emma Thompson are mother and daughter in real life, and in the film they have the familiarity of a lifelong couple....[Rickman] has a great command here of look and tone..."
Product Description:
A dense, filling slice-of-life set in a tiny snowbound Scottish burg, where four pairs of characters grapple with various aspects of human hardship. Thompson plays opposite Law, her actual mother, as a recently widowed photographer whose haze of grief has driven a wedge into their relationship. Rickman's directorial debut, adapted from the stage play by Sharman MacDonald.
