We missed it, it’s true. We lacked the characters, the ultra-toxic family dynamics, the scandals, the brilliant dialogues, the crazy settings, the even crazier costumes, in short, we lacked the whole world of Downton Abbeyseries that ended in 2015 and already resurrected with the 2019 film. And it’s about the effect nostalgia pointing also Downton Abbey II – A new erathe new movie released at the cinema, to bring people into the room (sadly almost impossible mission today).
Highly anticipated come on fan who, like all fans, are willing to do anything to get a new dose of their favorite object. But is this enough? Is nostalgia enough? Just affection for Lady Violet? Obviously to the aforementioned fans yes, but perhaps, for those who did not grow up in the cult of the English aristocrats, no. A film has a beginning and an end, and it is based on plot, characters, directorial style and so on. More than a single plot, a TV series builds a coherent universe, a perfectly functioning parallel world with its rules and its protagonists. That’s what he did masterfully Downton Abbey in his six television seasons. And that he replicated in the new film, a project written and designed for fans, a kind of long special episodewith the only difference that to watch it you have to pay the ticket.
Certainly the premises are tempting: year 1929Downton turns into a movie set when the sound takes over the silent cinematwo divasand at the same time a trip to south of France with possible scandal in the past of Lady Violet.
We’re certainly not on the side of the terrible cinematic sequel to Sex and the Citythe one set in Dubai in which you had to dodge the continuous product placement to grab shreds of history (not received: Carrie’s “betrayal” with a kiss in the mouth of her ex is not classifiable as such even in middle school). But all problems of film rewriting of a successful series remain: history is lost in a thousand subplotsnone more exciting than the other, and the feeling remains that only fans of the previous episodes.
4178_D012_00761_RCLaura Haddock stars as Myrna Dalgleish and Michael Fox as Andy in DOWNTON ABBEY: A New Era, a Focus Features release. Credit: Ben Blackall / © 2021 Focus Features, LLCBen Blackall
4178_D054_01693-01700_RCC (lr.) Harry Hadden-Paton stars as Bertie Pelham, Laura Carmichael as Lady Edith, Tuppence Middleton as Lucy Smith and Allen Leech as Tom Branson in DOWNTON ABBEY: A New Era, a Focus Features release. Credit: Ben Blackall / © 2021 Focus Features, LLCBen Blackall
Source: Vanity Fair
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