Housekeeping
Housekeeping

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In the Pacific Northwest in 1955, two young sisters, abandoned by their mother, wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Housekeeping:

Christine Lahti
Sara Walker
Andrea Burchill
Anne Pitoniak
Barbara Reese
Margot Pinvidic

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In the Pacific Northwest in 1955, two young sisters, abandoned by their mother, wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.

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Chicago Reader - 8/10 by Jonathan RosenbaumThe most impressive thing about this haunting fable is Forsyth's fluidity and grace as a storyteller.
Las Vegas Review-Journal - 6/10 by Carol ClingHaunting and one-of-a-kind, with a knockout Lahti performance.
User Review - 10/10 by Nick Cthis is the strangest, most beautiful movie. It is character development par excellence, and one designed to see how comfortable we are living outside social norms.
User Review - 10/10 by John C"And there was an end to housekeeping." (Sorry. I just love that quote.) There are rare films that I like to watch over and over again which has happened increasingly less as time goes on. Of those, three films by Bill Forsyth are prime examples that combine high quality with unmatched enjoyment. They are "Gregory's Girl," "Local Hero" and "Houskeeping" which form an informal trilogy containing characters who feel out of place. I saw "Housekeeping" for the first time in a long time in New York City last night and recall having seen it on campus shortly after it came out. And I loved it then, and love it now, especially Bill Forsyth's perfectly unassuming direction, classic dialogue and gorgeous cinematography. Basically, it is about two sisters, Ruth(Sara Walker) and Lucille(Andrea Burchill) who are left with their grandmother(Georgie Collins) in Fingerbone shortly before their mother(Margot Pinvidic) drives into a lake. The grandmother's death brings in two elderly aunts(Anne Pitoniak & Barbara Reese) who in turn contact the mother's vagabond sister Sylvie(Christine Lahti) before departing suddenly, leaving her more or less in charge. One of my prime memories of "Housekeeping" is the scene where Sylvie breaks out in laughter at an advertisement for vacuum cleaners that perfectly expresses the domesticity of the 1950's when the movie is set. When I first saw the movie, I thought she is simply rejecting traditional roles. Watching it now, I picked up on some additional dialogue which not only gives new meaning to that scene but also hints at Sylvie's dark past which she will not speak to her nieces about when they are desperately looking for information about their mother. This is important since Sylvie's relationship to her sister reflects on the present relationship between Ruth and Lucille. It also gives a deeper impression that she had some more experience in a home than otherwise indicated and explains her ambivalence towards household chores, preferring the freedom of the open road, as she takes life in stride, where the unknown is preferable to the known. In the moment, she stays longer than normal in a small town, where rules can be bent but not broken, that tolerates her eccentricity up to a point and is still haunted by a disastrous train crash decades before.
User Review - 10/10 by Eric Rmismarketed like you wouldn't believe, gorgeous, tender, adjectives, fuck. not enough stars, put this shit on dvd STAT.
User Review - 10/10 by Ahmed Hwhat a treat!! the best film i've seen this year .
User Review - 10/10 by Generoso FFantastic heart-warming film full of laughter, spoilt brats & well - newspapers! Keep an eye out for Christine Lahti, she is just FANTASTIC.
User Review - 10/10 by Kerry GDon't let the title and the cover art fool you. This is a gem.
User Review - 10/10 by Private UNo-one's ever heard of this but it is a great transposition of a novel into a film.
User Review - 10/10 by Nicholas PI left the cinema feeling profoundly strange.

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