RE313 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Anthony Minghella, Roger Ebert, Juliet Stevenson
Document Summary
Film notes: truly, madly, deeply: 1991, dir. Nina, an interpreter, is beside herself with grief at the recent death of her boyfriend, jamie, a cellist. When she is on the verge of despair, jamie reappears as a "ghost" and the couple are reconciled. The screenplay never clarifies whether this occurs in reality, or merely in. Nina is ecstatic, but jamie"s behaviour turning up the central heating to stifling levels, moving furniture around and inviting back "ghost friends" to watch videos gradually infuriates her, and their relationship deteriorates. She meets mark, a psychologist, to whom she is attracted, but she is unwilling to become involved with him because of jamie"s continued presence. Nina continues to love jamie but is conflicted by his self-centred behaviour and ultimately wonders out loud, "was it always like this?" Ni(cid:374)a"s o(cid:271)je(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s, ja(cid:373)ie de(cid:272)ides to lea(cid:448)e to allo(cid:449) her to (cid:373)o(cid:448)e o(cid:374).
