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“Because you are fond of fairy tales,” Beatrix Potter wrote to one of her popular children in 1901, “I have made you a account all for yourself, a unique one that nobody has read before.”
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Now, a century later, “Miss Potter” (directed by Chris Noonan, starring Rene Zellweger) has a unusual chronicle to scream, and quite a fairy memoir it is, too, with all the luscious magic of one of Beatrix Potter’s believe stories: winsome characters, savory settings, strong period details. I was charmed by this film (viewed on DVD, with all the extras), and spent an enchanted evening watching it. As a movie, it is lovely family entertainment–something that’s hard to approach by, these days.
But the film has been widely billed as a biopic, and if you were looking for a memoir that’s moral to Beatrix’s life, this one might mislead you. Richard Maltby (who wrote the script and spent some 10 years trying to win it produced) and Chris Noonan have teamed up to give us a handsome fairy anecdote, but one that is based on some fairly fundamental misrepresentations of Beatrix’s right life.
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Take that clarify Christmas party, for instance, in a festooned Potter mansion. This dramatically pivotal event could never have happened, for Rupert and Helen Potter were Dissenters who did not celebrate Christmas–much to Beatrix’s disappointment, as a child longing for a tree and the trimmings. (In life, both the Potters seem to have been mighty more dour people than their on-screen representations.)
Or assume those childhood visits to the Lake Districts, which never happened either. The Potters holidayed in Scotland until Beatrix was 16. Which means that she could not have met Willie Heelis, who was nearly five years younger than Beatrix, anyway (not older, as the film portrays him) . Oh, and Willie was the son of a rector and the Heelis family belonged to quite a different social class from the one in which Willie is placed in the film. More misrepresentation (although the on-screen Willie is a genuine charmer.)
But the most miserable distortion of all is the decision to collapse the eight years it took for Beatrix to become independent enough to leave her parents. The film portrayed Norman’s death as the lever that pried her from the Potters’ recall. Not so. Beatrix bought Hill Top a few months after Norman died in 1905, but did not leave her parents until 1913, when she married Willie. For eight long, difficult years, Beatrix commuted from her parents’ home or holiday state to Sawrey. During that time, she could come by away only five or six times a year, sometimes for a few days, sometimes for as worthy as a fortnight. Norman’s death was indeed the prod she needed to do a change, but it wasn’t until Willie offered her another choice that she was finally able to free herself. Compressing this long-running family conflict into a matter of months and hinging the whole thing on Norman’s death distorts Beatrix’s character and makes her seem more decisively “recent” than she was in precise life.
As a novelist engaged in creating historical fictions (some of them featuring Beatrix Potter), I am always aware of the challenges of representing valid people in fictional contexts, and inconvenience when actual lives are seriously distorted to manufacture a myth more spirited. I enjoyed this film as a film, and give it five stars for its entertainment value. As a biopic, I’d give it a two, three to be profitable. Putting the two together, a four-minus.
Oh, and for the right narrative of Beatrix’s life, you’ll want to read Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear.
Susan Wittig Albert is the author of The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter: The Memoir of Hill Top Farm (The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter), The Myth of Holly How, The Account of Cuckoo Brow Wood (Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter Mysteries), The Chronicle of Hawthorn House: The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter, and four other forthcoming novels in the series.
I saw this gorgeous film this past week in Chicago at a preview showing and was simply overjoyed by it. Only five years ago this would have been a Miramax film, but following the messy departure of the Weinsteins from Miramax to effect their fill production company, they are distributing this joint production. Plot in the early decades of the twentieth century, in a sort of extended Edwardian age, the film possesses a incredible period feel and scrutinize. Like the best of the Miramax films, it feels like a time capsule more than a contemporary production.
With only some shame I have to admit to luminous very limited about Beatrix Potter. To inject some autobiography, I was not read Potter as a child and though after my divorce I raised my daughter, reading to her constantly, there was an agreement that on her periodic visits to her mother she would be allowed to read her Beatrix Potter (because of a Potter obsession by her believe godmother) and Laura Ingalls Wilder. I read my daughter every other children’s’ writer, but was forbidden to dip into either of those. So I saw this biopic sparkling next to nothing about her. The film seemed to me to give a grand impression of who she was. She emerges in the film as a sort of frightened feminist, not a activist, but quietly insisting on taking her absorb path. Though there are flashbacks to her childhood and the final quarter of the film focuses on her spellbinding to the Lake District, most of the film deals with the period of partnership and eventually romance between her and her publisher, Norman Warne. One suspects that of necessity a ample deal is left out, but as it exists it is compelling. I did a bit of checking on the Internet and discovered that she was not 32 in 1903, so the film obviously fudges some numbers, but as presented the film mild provided a luscious portrait.
Renée Zellweger is astonishing in the title role. I have seen photographs of Beatrix Potter and there does not seem to be noteworthy of a resemblance between the two. To the film’s credit, they do a grand deal to de-emphasize Zellweger’s loveliness. She isn’t exactly uninteresting, but she isn’t as radiant as usual. But she brings a luscious simplicity to her role. Ewan McGregor is lovely in his role, but unlike their sorrowful film DOWN WITH Admire, his role is not equal to hers in this one. He manages to be everything he needs to be. Emily Watson plays his sister. There are movie stars and there are actresses, and she is an actress. I have always been amazed at considerable her various roles can differ from one another. A lot of actresses, unfortunately, as they approach the age of forty, have probably reached halt to the slay of their career. Watson is so comely, however, and those stout eyes so expressive, that you sense that she probably hasn’t reached half of her eventual film resume. I’m determined we’ll be seeing her in roles thirty-five years from now. It was noble to gape Bill Paterson as Beatrix’s father. He has always been one of my approved supporting actors and for my money we have always seen far too limited of him. Traditional British actress Barbara Flynn is favorable as well as Beatrix’s mother.
Chris Noonan directed the film. The last time we encountered him as a director was in one of the most delectable films of the nineties, BABE. I have absolutely no conception what he has been up to the past decade, but this film has some of the same lush ogle that BABE did. Interestingly, animals feature prominently in both films.
The last fragment of the film, that centers on the beginning of the final chapter of Potter’s life as a farmer in the Lake District, features some of the most exquisite landscapes you can ever hope to notice in a movie. The raze of the film indicates that Miss Potter left 4,000 acres of Lake District property to the National Trust. I hope that some of those scenes were filmed on some of that property.
Finally, I want to add that while I’ve never been one to be on the lookout for “family” (which to me usually are synonymous with “humdrum” or “bland”), this film, which could easily receive a “G” rating, is a film that any parent could feel comfortable showing any child. Younger children might regain it a bit listless, but any fan of Beatrix Potter, whether young or conventional, will surely relish this film. Indeed, as someone who cannot count himself among her fans (entirely through a complete lack of acquaintance), I can attest that those uncommon with her work will adore the film as well.
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