THE WINTER GUEST (1997) ** You have to admire the ambition, I think, something of a Scottish cinematic "Ulysses" without the experimentation or kinks. A visual paen to less is better, and the interconnectedness of human cosmos in isolation. There are the juvenile delinquents seeking nothing better than a smoke but also getting kittens, the little old ladies whose social agenda consists of attendance at funerals, the teenagers of sexual tension (will they do it?), and the real life mother and daughter team of Emma Thompson and Phyllida Law trading barbs within a one way onslaught of advice and two-way desperation. Everything is well done, but there's nothing to enchant or mesmerize, other than the spectacular lunar travel brochure landscape. May leave you thinking that there's not much to think about.
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