This is by far one of the best things I watched on television growing up in the 90s. It stuck with me since then, and I will watch it every few years or so. Celia Imrie was so amazing here, as was HBC.
I don't think she is all that good, she's also a nepo baby. I prefer the acting in Poirot for instance where nobody is a 'sleb', although, of course, David Suchet became a "sleb" because of playing Poirot. Using well-known actors prevents the immersion of the viewer in the atmosphere of films, although ok in the theatre as the disbelief threshold is so much higher. However, the book and the script are so awesome, it's still well worth watching.
@@ChantePierce-kp3uf I am not an actress, so why would I be "jealous"? Actually, the right word would be "envious" as she has not walked away with my husband (in fact, my husband, a retired journalist, also thinks she is a dreadful actress). I go regularly to the theatre and I like many actresses, why am I not "jealous" of Carey Mulligan or Rosamunc Pike, for instance. You just have no idea of what constitutes good acting, probably never been to see a play in your life, you are just fetishizing a celebrity.
This made for Television two part miniseries should be much more known than it is. The ambitiousness and uniqueness of the whole show and the characters and the way it allows you to puzzle pieces together is what makes it so interestingly intriguing as an astoundingly fantastic mystery. I've also been looking at the physical distribution of this because it's very interesting. There's two region 2 dvds (one also being region 4) that includes A Dark Adapted Eye and the only region 1 American release i could find on the American amazon website was a very interesting VHS that only has one left in stock. Overall, great show!
Don't buy the VHS if you want the entire film version - I bought it, and it's heavily edited (e.g., the scene wherein Faith and Anne re-enact Elsie's fate).
Love the book. I read it so many years ago when it first came out. Just saw this posted on RUclips and I’m watching it now. I forgotten a lot of what happened in the book so I am enjoying this.
A beautiful story! But how could they make 2 so different actresses play the same charachter? I couldn't get it was the same girl - had to check up in Wikipedia. I'm sure Helena Bonham Carter coud play ANY age whatsoever
@@Kaysxedits I do not know exactly. I just never liked her. Of course I don't know anything about her or what she is like as a person. But when I see, for example, what she's wearing, her style of clothing, I find that horrible! It is, of course, her business, not mine. She seems very strange to me in her way.
@@Schelby.Lo1 Ok so she can't be herself Just what she wears doesn't mean anything (Like she's such a sweet heart) And I think her fashion is cool and very original.
When I see Celia Imrie, I remember her saying jowdie, jowdie and being matter of fact, in the show Blandings! She plays the bossy, scary lady really well. This was a great download.❤
Wow, this is great -- just reading the book simult now ... HBC is still so young and pretty in this -- and Honeysuckle is just a little cutie -- yet she already demonstrates the trademark vocal cadences and facial expressions which I have found so endearing in Foyle's War
They talk about the March baby and Faith questions Vera's innocence. In the book Faith never did this because she never thought Vera capable of killing a child.
Anyone who's read other Barbara Vine novels will probably guess that the bit about the March baby's disappearance is about an unrelated strand of crime, which is a bit of a red herring in terms of the main storyline. There's something similar in "Asta's Book," and in "A Fatal Inversion" - both involving babies and disappearances, with "Asta's Book" involving questions of baby paternity and adoption like "A Dark Adapted Eye" - and also in "No Night is Too Long."
Thank you, thank you, Ibne Adam. I am such a fan of Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine. I remember seeing this years ago in Chicago, Illinois on PBS. I love reading her and with audio books, as well. Watched both parts. Now, I'm on to Gallow Glass. Best regards from a mutual fan.
The character of young Faith is played by the delightfully named Honeysuckle Weeks who was 15 when this was made in 1994. Now 39 (2019) she is best known for playing the character Samantha Stewart in Foyle's War (2002 - 2015) although she has appeared in almost every famous UK TV series including The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, The Bill, Midsomer Murders and Death in Paradise. Her sister Perdita and brother Rollo are both actors.
Honeysuckle, Perdita, and Rollo: such old school posh English names. Perdita played a younger version of a character played by Honeysuckle in a TV serial. She does look a lot like Honeysuckle.
@@SY-ok2dq Honeysuckle was the name her parents chose when she was born - the scent of honeysuckle poured through the window during her birth. Perdita was named for Oscar Wilde's mother, a famous writer in her own right. Rollo is a Norman name. You think they are posh names?
@@Thepourdeuxchanson Yes, I do. I'm sure names like Honeysuckle, Rollo or Perdita don't go down well on council housing estates. If you want to fit in there, a name like Cheryl would be a better choice. Or in East London, names along the lines of Ahmed. Or Mohammed - a name which has recently risen to the top of the ranks of popular names for babies in Britain.
I didn't know all this great stuff was on here!... I know what I will be watching for the next while and it won't be Sky lol! Was it Honeysuckle Weeks who played Arrietty in the Borrower's? The guy who plays Francis, Vera's older son, looks really young, he used to get the same overground train as me when I lived at Hackney Central and he looks even younger here than he did then... you forget how long ago this was lol... I swear I am turning into such a senile old bat!
Thank you so much for putting this up. I do not understand why they made Faith so different than she was in the book. She never went to the trial and her attitude toward Vera was different. I suppose the excuse is for the sake of story exposition. But I find it jarring.
Honeysuckle Week’s is v good, as elsewhere. HBC is excellent in everything she does. Celia Imrie is fabulous here in a heavier role than is usually entrusted her.
Number 3 Baby is one gorgeous little angel!!! (They were all adorable - it's nice that Baby 2 didn't cry with all the water poured on his head -it must have been nice and warm!) Spooky, spooky show - Thanks, Ibne !!! - can't wait to see the rest - ta!
It seems like WWII lasts 15 years and that people age at bizarrely different rates. Even from the start, the age difference between Vera and Eden make it seem like Eden is really Vera’s baby.
Around 12:50 Vera says, "We'll be late for tea at the rectory!" When they're leaving the rectory, Vera says, "We'll be late for Eden's tea!" But they just had tea... ? 🤔
Coffee was the first commonly available hot drink in England from the 1650 onwards! Tea came much later and it was extremely expensive for a long time. This film doesn't portray an average family life, meaning they didn't drink tea and eat biscuits all day! Tea gives me a headache, so I drink ground coffee only. 😊
Frances is actual psychopath! So sad what happens when a mother never shoes a son love ! Dropping blood on poor baby brother ! They can read and feel bad energy babies 😢 lovely series anyways love the tea and table spreads rhey always have.
"It only takes 20 seconds, for the act itself....and then you have to take care of them for the next 20 years.".......yes.😬😬😬 so 1950s British......or as I was told, hilariously, "It's simple dear; just stare at the ceiling, and think of England."
England's presence all over the world, on multiple continents, exposed to diverse religions and cultures ensured they all knew about Islam, going back to the 1600's, and in fact, to the Crusades. It was common knowledge.
At 44:31 on, when Vera and her friend are by the river with little Kathleen... well, the river never moves. It took me several times watching to notice this, so it was very subtly done!
Vera establishes herself as, at the very least, a verbal and emotional abuser, the moment the child gets off the train, in my opinion. A constant stream of criticism with the automatic assumption that she is 'right' and the criticism is justified.
C A Campbell I know, right?!? I found it difficult to reconcile Vera's dominant character in the beginning of the story with the weak and needy one she became. I suppose it was the twisted dynamic between the two sisters. Then again, Vera was weak and needy under the surface all along, wasn't she?
Celia Imrie plays it so well, Vera completely dominates everything and everyone in her life and Eden only has her beauty as a defence, so Vera can't do anything but be in awe of her.
I really enjoyed watching this film. I think it`s a shame they did not choose Honeysuckle Weeks instead of H.B. Carter. There are so many good actors but they always seem to pick the same ones over and over again and never giving others a chance to prove their abilities. Of course, Meryl Streep is a good actress but it`s easier when you always get the best parts. Anyway, thank you very much for sharing.
Happy Helen - Thank you :) I appreciate the information. I have problems knowing which one is which. Had I not watched "The Ragnymph", I wouldn`t know that there are two of them in the first place. Many kind greetings from Slovenia :)
Happy Helen - Oh, I think HBC is an interesting, extremely talented, beautiful and very excentric actress. No wonder they squeeze her in where ever they can - LOL.
Honeysuckle Weeks was 15 when she made this, not sure they could have 'aged' her enough to play the grown-up Faith, not in looks so much as in more subtle ways. I like HBC very much. I don't think Celia Imrie gets enough credit.
Honeysuckle Weeks hair is more brown here, so that was supposed to be some resemblance to HBC, but it is funny seeing Weeks now and how she looks nothing like Helena. Couple of questions: What is the song sung around Jamie at the beginning, in the school, during Vera's hanging? And was any of this true? I did once find Vera Hilyard was the last woman put to death by hanging in the UK, but I can hardly find that now at all without being directed to this movie, and I was never able to find out what her crime was, if she had been real.
I'm confused about why Faith's maiden name was Severn, instead of Longley? As I understood it, Faith's father and his sisters Vera and Eden were all born Longleys? (Jamie's birth certificate identifies his mother as "Eden Mary Longley", "father unknown."). Thanks if you can help me with this!
It's been years since I read the book but I think in the backstory Faith's father was the product of a first marriage and Vera and Eden were the children of a second husband. It gets a lot more into the family background and how one family had a more impressive lineage (from a prewar British perspective) and that was the reason for a lot of Vera's insecurity and snobbery.
@@texasred2702 I think it was actually Helen who had a different father, while John (Faith's father), Vera, and Eden had the same father named Longley. So I don't get where the name "Severn" came in either! Gotta get out the book and struggle through it with the magnifying glass, these questions are making me bonkers!" CORRECTION: Helen had a different mother; they all had the same father and therefore were all Longleys. Eden explains it to Faith as they and Vera are walking up the drive to visit Helen at Walbrooks: "Our father married twice..."
@@liketheroman Wow, that's just rude and tacky to assume someone is learning a foreign language so they can come live in your country! People everywhere learn foreign languages because they need it for business, or they enjoy communicating with others from around the world.
It was interesting to hear the C of E vicar utter the words - " this child - conceived in sin " - used even when the parents had been ' married in the sight of God '. Those words have now been deleted from the baptism service.
Very good! My son has raised his two son's as a single father, the oldest is 13, and gained custody of his second son when he was five, in 2018. When authorities contacted him to pick his child up because the mother was again in jail for drug possession. After all these years his mother wanted the second child back? Has nothing to do with her first? She claimed my son isn't the father. The DNA cheek swab ordered by Judge proved my son was not. HE fought to keep custody and lost. This judge did not read intelius criminal reports dating from 2017 until as recently as a month ago, she cannot produce a biological father and has never maintained any employment or housing. Jumping from friend to friend. Her criminal record as well as immediate family includes felony drug possession and meth lab equipment! The judge never read any of it because the case heard in Arkansas had no case number? He ordered the children to testify and called them liars on the stand. He even blocked my Grandson from having his own representation! Something is wrong here! The mother intends to home school my 8 year old grandson. Her education stopped at 7th grade. Family are the people who love you! Dads are the men who take responsibility to raise you, teach you, and most of all they love you! You can't turn that switch off over a DNA result. Since there's "no case file" in AR. I will file an OSC in the County where Child Services called my son in 2018 and where the mother lives. I will make sure my Grandson is enrolled in school where there are mandated reporter of child neglect and abuse. More important My Grandson has rights and needs his own Attorney. In CA. He will get representation and his voice will be heard.If anything he has a right to see his brother!
Karilee Anderson, are you saying there are schools in Arkansas where employees aren't mandated reporters? Doesn't sound legal, but if that's the case, get the heck out of Arkansas.
😂 what's with the age's of Faith and Vera's son. Faith was😂 like 12 yrs... The war lasted 6 years, suddenly they are young adults, not teenagers, weird. They'd both be at least mid twenties 😢😅 JUST a thought Mon Ami BOM
This psychological mystery/thriller, adapted from Ruth Rendell's novel of the same name, depicts a family on the edge. Two sisters, the elder obsessive Vera, and the younger, manipulative Eden, cut a path of jealousy, murder and revenge that leads to the destruction of their entire family. - from imdb
Why? Read the book. She murdered a child. She lied for gain. She stole. She thrived on envy one of the deadliest vices and was most likely a racist. She was at best a narcissist but never harmless. So what is it that you pity? " Some are born to endless night." That is why the author used the science of the dark adaptation of the eye as a metaphor. Imho of course.
My empathy for suffering people stops sharply when they make other people suffer. There's no justification for her selfishness and loving others would have nullified her psychopathic self-obsession.
One of the best examinations of female psychopathy long before Gillian Flynn and even Lynda LaPlante. Nothing new under the sun. The second sex can be just as lethal.
@BLTKellys I think that was a big part of Faith's difficulty as a child in "polite society" - blurting out whatever was on her mind (as she did when she burst in during tea and shouted about Elsie throwing herself down the well). The whole story was about the family members' dysfunctions. It's cool that the film had Faith finding a comfortable place in her 2nd husband's (and her mother's) culture. Working with kids, I understand the struggle with impulsivity. Being part of the Italian culture, I understand the tendency to talk about whatever's on your mind! :)
Vera alone in her cell is not accurate; she would have been with at least two prison officers all the time and her cell would have been lit night and day.
We see only a small part of her cell, where she is sitting and brushing her hair. I would think there might have been POs on the other side of the cell, out of camera range. Or maybe they weren't required in those days, "because she was female." As far as the light... chiaroscuro... artistic license...
Pygiana Helena Bonham Carter is an amazing and gorgeous actress! I have no idea how anyone could possibly think otherwise! But, to each their "own" I suppose, maybe another dull bleach blonde actress would have been more suitable...
Who the hell is Honeysuckle Weeks? Nobody ever heard of her and you're all talking about her as if she had at least three Oscars and had won several beauty pageants...you're all bonkers.
Honeysuckle Weeks couldn't have played the character at a more mature age, she was (a young looking) 15yr old and it would have been unbelievable and looked daft. She's a good actress, I first saw her in Goggle eyes when she was around the same age as in this but she definitely only looks like a child.
I know I would, when I saw my two grandchildren with BLUE eyes after being generations of BROWN, it SUSPICIOUSLY gave me the HEEBIE JEEBIES. AND though I LOVE surprises... It PARANOIDED me out, even though I love VARIETIES 😣😣😣
That's really not so unusual, blue eyes being a recessive trait that lurks about and then shows up unexpectedly. As Francis said, "It's the other way 'round, Helen." Even two blue-eyed parents can produce a brown-eyed child (though rarely), due to genetic crossovers or mutations.
This is by far one of the best things I watched on television growing up in the 90s. It stuck with me since then, and I will watch it every few years or so. Celia Imrie was so amazing here, as was HBC.
I love these british shows! Thanks from Australia.
Celia Imrie One of Britain,s finest actresses , She actually is a pure in form actress . no matter what part she plays .
A British legend .
Yes. Completely immersive and believable.
She is, but she is so annoying as Pamela Adlon's mother in Better Things.
I am so happy someone downloaded this. Just brilliant
This movie has haunted me for years. Thanks for posting it so I get to enjoy it again!
I love helen bonham acting its so simple yet armatureesque but in elegant yet professional way cant explain it
I don't think she is all that good, she's also a nepo baby. I prefer the acting in Poirot for instance where nobody is a 'sleb', although, of course, David Suchet became a "sleb" because of playing Poirot. Using well-known actors prevents the immersion of the viewer in the atmosphere of films, although ok in the theatre as the disbelief threshold is so much higher. However, the book and the script are so awesome, it's still well worth watching.
Helen Bonham is ALWAYS a great addition to any film !
@@ileanamuntean7338 Whatever... she is brilliant as ever and I think you must be jealous of her !
@@ileanamuntean7338 a room with a view for instance her best work. It almost became her trademark the way she acts.
@@ChantePierce-kp3uf I am not an actress, so why would I be "jealous"? Actually, the right word would be "envious" as she has not walked away with my husband (in fact, my husband, a retired journalist, also thinks she is a dreadful actress). I go regularly to the theatre and I like many actresses, why am I not "jealous" of Carey Mulligan or Rosamunc Pike, for instance. You just have no idea of what constitutes good acting, probably never been to see a play in your life, you are just fetishizing a celebrity.
This made for Television two part miniseries should be much more known than it is. The ambitiousness and uniqueness of the whole show and the characters and the way it allows you to puzzle pieces together is what makes it so interestingly intriguing as an astoundingly fantastic mystery.
I've also been looking at the physical distribution of this because it's very interesting. There's two region 2 dvds (one also being region 4) that includes A Dark Adapted Eye and the only region 1 American release i could find on the American amazon website was a very interesting VHS that only has one left in stock. Overall, great show!
Don't buy the VHS if you want the entire film version - I bought it, and it's heavily edited (e.g., the scene wherein Faith and Anne re-enact Elsie's fate).
What a fabulous cast
Thank you for sharing
Just finished the book (again). It is so good, and cannot wait to see this adaptation (again)
Love the book. I read it so many years ago when it first came out. Just saw this posted on RUclips and I’m watching it now. I forgotten a lot of what happened in the book so I am enjoying this.
A beautiful story! But how could they make 2 so different actresses play the same charachter? I couldn't get it was the same girl - had to check up in Wikipedia. I'm sure Helena Bonham Carter coud play ANY age whatsoever
Two great actresses playing one role - fantastic .... on the whole it is an odd but brilliant TV series...
The Brits made brilliant dramas in the 90s and luckily the ABC were still buying them back then to watch on free to air tv.
Bernice Stegers was in my class at primary school & her mother was our form teacher. I remember she always wore pigtails.
You may be a liar but I'm not. Go check yourself, St Francis School in Southgate Crawley.
Zig Zag who says that I'm a liar.
You're calling me one!
Zig Zag I'm not. I was just mimicking cool kids on the internet whenever someone claims something. Just kidding!
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This genre is not normally my cup of tea, but when I saw Helena Bonham Carter was in it, I had to give it a view.
I don't like Helena Bonham Carter. But I really have no clue, why that's so.
@@Schelby.Lo1 Why don't you like Helena? May I ask
@@Kaysxedits
I do not know exactly. I just never liked her. Of course I don't know anything about her or what she is like as a person. But when I see, for example, what she's wearing, her style of clothing, I find that horrible! It is, of course, her business, not mine. She seems very strange to me in her way.
@@Schelby.Lo1 Ok so she can't be herself Just what she wears doesn't mean anything (Like she's such a sweet heart) And I think her fashion is cool and very original.
@@Schelby.Lo1 That's sad you don't like her face
When I see Celia Imrie, I remember her saying jowdie, jowdie and being matter of fact, in the show Blandings! She plays the bossy, scary lady really well. This was a great download.❤
Wow, this is great -- just reading the book simult now ... HBC is still so young and pretty in this -- and Honeysuckle is just a little cutie -- yet she already demonstrates the trademark vocal cadences and facial expressions which I have found so endearing in Foyle's War
That's what it is xfl love it too
Wow... so gripping, so happy to find such gems on YT. ❤
They talk about the March baby and Faith questions Vera's innocence. In the book Faith never did this because she never thought Vera capable of killing a child.
Anyone who's read other Barbara Vine novels will probably guess that the bit about the March baby's disappearance is about an unrelated strand of crime, which is a bit of a red herring in terms of the main storyline. There's something similar in "Asta's Book," and in "A Fatal Inversion" - both involving babies and disappearances, with "Asta's Book" involving questions of baby paternity and adoption like "A Dark Adapted Eye" - and also in "No Night is Too Long."
Thank you, thank you, Ibne Adam. I am such a fan of Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine. I remember seeing this years ago in Chicago, Illinois on PBS. I love reading her and with audio books, as well. Watched both parts. Now, I'm on to Gallow Glass. Best regards from a mutual fan.
Diana L. Clausen You're welcome.
WTTW
big fan
The character of young Faith is played by the delightfully named Honeysuckle Weeks who was 15 when this was made in 1994. Now 39 (2019) she is best known for playing the character Samantha Stewart in Foyle's War (2002 - 2015) although she has appeared in almost every famous UK TV series including The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, The Bill, Midsomer Murders and Death in Paradise. Her sister Perdita and brother Rollo are both actors.
She might be a good actrice, but couldn't they have found someone who looks even the slightest bit like the older Faith?
Honeysuckle, Perdita, and Rollo: such old school posh English names.
Perdita played a younger version of a character played by Honeysuckle in a TV serial. She does look a lot like Honeysuckle.
@@SY-ok2dq Honeysuckle was the name her parents chose when she was born - the scent of honeysuckle poured through the window during her birth. Perdita was named for Oscar Wilde's mother, a famous writer in her own right. Rollo is a Norman name. You think they are posh names?
@@Thepourdeuxchanson Yes, I do. I'm sure names like Honeysuckle, Rollo or Perdita don't go down well on council housing estates. If you want to fit in there, a name like Cheryl would be a better choice. Or in East London, names along the lines of Ahmed. Or Mohammed - a name which has recently risen to the top of the ranks of popular names for babies in Britain.
@@SY-ok2dq Why would they want to fit into a council housing estate?
I didn't know all this great stuff was on here!... I know what I will be watching for the next while and it won't be Sky lol!
Was it Honeysuckle Weeks who played Arrietty in the Borrower's?
The guy who plays Francis, Vera's older son, looks really young, he used to get the same overground train as me when I lived at Hackney Central and he looks even younger here than he did then... you forget how long ago this was lol... I swear I am turning into such a senile old bat!
It was Rebecca Callard in The Borrowers.
You are so funny🤩
Thank you so much for putting this up.
I do not understand why they made Faith so different than she was in the book. She never went to the trial and her attitude toward Vera was different. I suppose the excuse is for the sake of story exposition. But I find it jarring.
Honeysuckle Week’s is v good, as elsewhere. HBC is excellent in everything she does. Celia Imrie is fabulous here in a heavier role than is usually entrusted her.
Thank you for the Uploud! Just finished the book :)
Love from Germany
Quite intense ,,,,will carry on watching,,,,,,
Another British film good cast
I love this adaptation so much. My copy is on VHS, so thanks for sharing!
The word “browbeaten” comes to mind. ;)
This movie takes place the day before I was born!
I'm sri lanka.i like improve my english knoladge. Theirfor watch this video.are there who this any friend help me.for my trying
Best of luck to you
There are many books on RUclips to help with English if you are interested. Reading and Speaking. Best of luck to you.😊
@@sherriepectol9324 thanks you .❤️
@@LilyGazou thanks .❤️
I'm from India ❤❤ Priyanka can we be friends for talking english 😂
Adorable little Honeysuckle Weeks.
Honeysuckle Weeks as a young girl!
I can't wait to get stuck in to this one. 😁😁
Wonderful book and miniseries!
Number 3 Baby is one gorgeous little angel!!! (They were all adorable - it's nice that Baby 2 didn't cry with all the water poured on his head -it must have been nice and warm!) Spooky, spooky show - Thanks, Ibne !!! - can't wait to see the rest - ta!
Desperation is the English way !!🤔 ...core good Story, all of this hush hush although everybody knows
It seems like WWII lasts 15 years and that people age at bizarrely different rates. Even from the start, the age difference between Vera and Eden make it seem like Eden is really Vera’s baby.
What a sweet baby at the end.
Thanks, Ibne!!! 🤗
Enjoyed the movie. Thanks.
Around 12:50 Vera says, "We'll be late for tea at the rectory!" When they're leaving the rectory, Vera says, "We'll be late for Eden's tea!" But they just had tea... ? 🤔
I keep expecting Mrs Overall to hobble into view.
All people did back then was have tea and biscuits so fabulous none of this coffee nonsense
Yes people can't seem to do a supermarket shop without stopping for a coffee 🙄
@@RM-ti8nfbecause they drink what they want!
I order my coffee from the Amazon.😂
Coffee was the first commonly available hot drink in England from the 1650 onwards!
Tea came much later and it was extremely expensive for a long time.
This film doesn't portray an average family life, meaning they didn't drink tea and eat biscuits all day!
Tea gives me a headache, so I drink ground coffee only. 😊
Superb!
Frances is actual psychopath! So sad what happens when a mother never shoes a son love ! Dropping blood on poor baby brother ! They can read and feel bad energy babies 😢 lovely series anyways love the tea and table spreads rhey always have.
The real problem in a child's life, but especially boys, is the lack of a FATHER. The father shapes the whole existence and future of a child.
What happened to rationing? Cakes, biscuits, eggs, sugar, cream teas. Not historically accurate is it?
This truly ridiculous emotionally constipated Britishness is hard to fathom even after 73yrs of living here 😂
Ah, the charming Honeysuckle Weeks as a lass.
Eden seems strange. Too sweet , calm and innocent???? Did she throw away that letter?
"It only takes 20 seconds, for the act itself....and then you have to take care of them for the next 20 years.".......yes.😬😬😬
so 1950s British......or as I was told, hilariously, "It's simple dear; just stare at the ceiling, and think of England."
Love what Francis said about #islam and #righthands and #lefthands - he seems to have been in the future. #empathyforfrancis.
??? Islam is an ancient religion lmao hardly that unusual for aspects to be quoted throughout the ages
England's presence all over the world, on multiple continents, exposed to diverse religions and cultures ensured they all knew about Islam, going back to the 1600's, and in fact, to the Crusades. It was common knowledge.
At 44:31 on, when Vera and her friend are by the river with little Kathleen... well, the river never moves. It took me several times watching to notice this, so it was very subtly done!
😮 THEY don't always move 😮depends 😮 on the river 😢😮😅
@@jasanders5877 Whoa, calm down! And yes, there would be SOME kind of movement, even if just ripples or shimmering.
Good.
thank you
Clearly this is a very powerful series 🤔🥺🥶.
Wish the UPLOADER would right a synopsis 😮, be helpful Mon Ami BOM 😢😅
Vera establishes herself as, at the very least, a verbal and emotional abuser, the moment the child gets off the train, in my opinion. A constant stream of criticism with the automatic assumption that she is 'right' and the criticism is justified.
C A Campbell I know, right?!? I found it difficult to reconcile Vera's dominant character in the beginning of the story with the weak and needy one she became. I suppose it was the twisted dynamic between the two sisters. Then again, Vera was weak and needy under the surface all along, wasn't she?
Celia Imrie plays it so well, Vera completely dominates everything and everyone in her life and Eden only has her beauty as a defence, so Vera can't do anything but be in awe of her.
Vera is despicable.
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Honeysuckle weeks played the child❤
I really enjoyed watching this film. I think it`s a shame they did not choose Honeysuckle Weeks instead of H.B. Carter. There are so many good actors but they always seem to pick the same ones over and over again and never giving others a chance to prove their abilities. Of course, Meryl Streep is a good actress but it`s easier when you always get the best parts. Anyway, thank you very much for sharing.
Happy Helen - Thank you :) I appreciate the information. I have problems knowing which one is which. Had I not watched "The Ragnymph", I wouldn`t know that there are two of them in the first place. Many kind greetings from Slovenia :)
Happy Helen - Oh, I think HBC is an interesting, extremely talented, beautiful and very excentric actress. No wonder they squeeze her in where ever they can - LOL.
I think Helena BC is a much better actress really and well MS is ok but bad at picking good parts... MMia being a prime example
Karen Ratten
Oh, I agree.
Honeysuckle Weeks was 15 when she made this, not sure they could have 'aged' her enough to play the grown-up Faith, not in looks so much as in more subtle ways. I like HBC very much. I don't think Celia Imrie gets enough credit.
Where is part 3???
Moltes! Thanks so much!
But why is de quality only 360?
I've seen. Excellent viewing.
Film was not true to the book.....
What a creepy story this is!
All those eggs and a war on..
where's part 2 ?
Honeysuckle Weeks hair is more brown here, so that was supposed to be some resemblance to HBC, but it is funny seeing Weeks now and how she looks nothing like Helena.
Couple of questions: What is the song sung around Jamie at the beginning, in the school, during Vera's hanging?
And was any of this true? I did once find Vera Hilyard was the last woman put to death by hanging in the UK, but I can hardly find that now at all without being directed to this movie, and I was never able to find out what her crime was, if she had been real.
Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in the UK. In 1955. The film Dance with a Stranger is based on the case.
I'm confused about why Faith's maiden name was Severn, instead of Longley? As I understood it, Faith's father and his sisters Vera and Eden were all born Longleys? (Jamie's birth certificate identifies his mother as "Eden Mary Longley", "father unknown."). Thanks if you can help me with this!
It's been years since I read the book but I think in the backstory Faith's father was the product of a first marriage and Vera and Eden were the children of a second husband. It gets a lot more into the family background and how one family had a more impressive lineage (from a prewar British perspective) and that was the reason for a lot of Vera's insecurity and snobbery.
@@texasred2702 I think it was actually Helen who had a different father, while John (Faith's father), Vera, and Eden had the same father named Longley. So I don't get where the name "Severn" came in either! Gotta get out the book and struggle through it with the magnifying glass, these questions are making me bonkers!"
CORRECTION: Helen had a different mother; they all had the same father and therefore were all Longleys. Eden explains it to Faith as they and Vera are walking up the drive to visit Helen at Walbrooks: "Our father married twice..."
when must show biz've come up with (quote) "mini series", it's a damn serial ffs?!
Me watching and within minutes wondering if that is a Liberty clock?
I am from Iraq here to learn the British accent
Stay in Iraq. Britain is full!
@@liketheroman Wow, that's just rude and tacky to assume someone is learning a foreign language so they can come live in your country! People everywhere learn foreign languages because they need it for business, or they enjoy communicating with others from around the world.
honeysuckle weeks could have been anything
Really emachen that a house you lived in on a Stearns in a program
It was interesting to hear the C of E vicar utter the words - " this child - conceived in sin " - used even when the parents had been ' married in the sight of God '. Those words have now been deleted from the baptism service.
Very good!
My son has raised his two son's as a single father, the oldest is 13, and gained custody of his second son when he was five, in 2018. When authorities contacted him to pick his child up because the mother was again in jail for drug possession. After all these years his mother wanted the second child back? Has nothing to do with her first? She claimed my son isn't the father. The DNA cheek swab ordered by Judge proved my son was not. HE fought to keep custody and lost. This judge did not read intelius criminal reports dating from 2017 until as recently as a month ago, she cannot produce a biological father and has never maintained any employment or housing. Jumping from friend to friend. Her criminal record as well as immediate family includes felony drug possession and meth lab equipment! The judge never read any of it because the case heard in Arkansas had no case number?
He ordered the children to testify and called them liars on the stand. He even blocked my Grandson from having his own representation! Something is wrong here! The mother intends to home school my 8 year old grandson. Her education stopped at 7th grade.
Family are the people who love you! Dads are the men who take responsibility to raise you, teach you, and most of all they love you! You can't turn that switch off over a DNA result.
Since there's "no case file" in AR. I will file an OSC in the County where Child Services called my son in 2018 and where the mother lives. I will make sure my Grandson is enrolled in school where there are mandated reporter of child neglect and abuse. More important My Grandson has rights and needs his own Attorney. In CA. He will get representation and his voice will be heard.If anything he has a right to see his brother!
Karilee Anderson, are you saying there are schools in Arkansas where employees aren't mandated reporters? Doesn't sound legal, but if that's the case, get the heck out of Arkansas.
O Boy@!!!!!!!!!
I had no idea what that was about, why did vera kill eden and why did eden act so strange like she had a big secret, why was vera so highly strung??
I think Honeysuckle Weeks should have remained Faith throughout. I may be biased .
Honeysuckle Weeds!
At any rate, I don't think Faith would've grown up to look at all like Helena Bonham Carter.
ReelGirl 8 - Yes, I agree! They could have chosen Honeysuckle Weeks the real sister of Perdita Weeks. Just like in "The Rag Nymph".
Assad el Hafez - Weeks!
Well, I probably got it all wrong, because I get the two sisters mixed up :)
The next time I her that woman say wash your hands
It’s a good practice for sure.
Sophie is evil personified
😂 what's with the age's of Faith and Vera's son.
Faith was😂 like 12 yrs...
The war lasted 6 years, suddenly they are young adults, not teenagers, weird.
They'd both be at least mid twenties 😢😅
JUST a thought Mon Ami BOM
I saw a great music tribute to this series here, the song goes really well with Eden: ruclips.net/video/PoqgiU-hbiY/видео.html
Messylin I've seen it too.
This psychological mystery/thriller, adapted from Ruth Rendell's novel of the same name, depicts a family on the edge. Two sisters, the elder obsessive Vera, and the younger, manipulative Eden, cut a path of jealousy, murder and revenge that leads to the destruction of their entire family. - from imdb
We all read the copy, surely.
I know she's difficult, but I pity Vera.
Why? Read the book. She murdered a child. She lied for gain. She stole. She thrived on envy one of the deadliest vices and was most likely a racist. She was at best a narcissist but never harmless. So what is it that you pity? " Some are born to endless night." That is why the author used the science of the dark adaptation of the eye as a metaphor. Imho of course.
My empathy for suffering people stops sharply when they make other people suffer. There's no justification for her selfishness and loving others would have nullified her psychopathic self-obsession.
@@thehussarsjacobitess85 Vera loved Jamie. Your comment actually describes Eden. Perfectly.
She’s got Velcro syndrome: back of hand attached to forehead, ie. woe is me. “I am long suffering, so give me a break
Now , let’s not be ⏰ late ;).
One of the best examinations of female psychopathy long before Gillian Flynn and even Lynda LaPlante. Nothing new under the sun. The second sex can be just as lethal.
Second sex? Please clarify.
Faith is such a horrible little girl. That comment at 27:30 to Aunt Helen about her son was so uncalled for. This whole family are weird.
Read the book. Indeed they are! Some are.
@BLTKellys I think that was a big part of Faith's difficulty as a child in "polite society" - blurting out whatever was on her mind (as she did when she burst in during tea and shouted about Elsie throwing herself down the well). The whole story was about the family members' dysfunctions. It's cool that the film had Faith finding a comfortable place in her 2nd husband's (and her mother's) culture. Working with kids, I understand the struggle with impulsivity. Being part of the Italian culture, I understand the tendency to talk about whatever's on your mind! :)
murder is done 4:42
The comment writers are simply atrocious, really bad!
Oh for goodness sake! Did Mrs Hislop have #diabetes? And the whole #glasses thing?
diabetes? no wtf. she poisned her self with a toadstool
Vera alone in her cell is not accurate; she would have been with at least two prison officers all the time and her cell would have been lit night and day.
We see only a small part of her cell, where she is sitting and brushing her hair. I would think there might have been POs on the other side of the cell, out of camera range. Or maybe they weren't required in those days, "because she was female." As far as the light... chiaroscuro... artistic license...
I did not like this movie at all. I found it tedious and without merit. BORING !
How are we supposed to believe the lovely Honeysuckle Weeks could change into creepy plain Helena Bonham Carter?
Oh come on. She only killed Sirius Black...she was such a nasty character...bella
I wish my life had been filled with "creepy plain Helena Bonham Carter"
Pygiana Helena Bonham Carter is an amazing and gorgeous actress! I have no idea how anyone could possibly think otherwise! But, to each their "own" I suppose, maybe another dull bleach blonde actress would have been more suitable...
How can anyone call Miss Bonham Carter plain? She's a stunner!
Helena is my homie
HBC very frumpy - would've preferred Honeysuckle all through..
Who the hell is Honeysuckle Weeks? Nobody ever heard of her and you're all talking about her as if she had at least three Oscars and had won several beauty pageants...you're all bonkers.
Honeysuckle Weeks couldn't have played the character at a more mature age, she was (a young looking) 15yr old and it would have been unbelievable and looked daft. She's a good actress, I first saw her in Goggle eyes when she was around the same age as in this but she definitely only looks like a child.
Where is this brother of Vera, and Eden his name is John. They always say "your father" John, Vera, and I. Where was this John?
@D Charles, John is Faith's father. The one shown eating his breakfast on the morning Vera was hanged.
STRANGE ENGLISH........................
Sorry Helena, clicked on this thinking you were my Australian cousin. she did a bit of acting down under. WTF are you doing acting in this?
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And your credentials are... some nobody who watches movies.
I know I would, when I saw my two grandchildren with BLUE eyes after being generations of BROWN, it SUSPICIOUSLY gave me the HEEBIE JEEBIES. AND though I LOVE surprises... It PARANOIDED me out, even though I love VARIETIES 😣😣😣
That's really not so unusual, blue eyes being a recessive trait that lurks about and then shows up unexpectedly. As Francis said, "It's the other way 'round, Helen." Even two blue-eyed parents can produce a brown-eyed child (though rarely), due to genetic crossovers or mutations.
19:14 Vera totally asked for it
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Psychedelic directing was "the thing" those days I guess. This one is not for me.