The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) is an English film directed by Mike Newell.
The movie stars Jessica Brown Findlay as Elizabeth McKenna, a London-based author, and Michiel Huisman as Dawsey Adams, a man who lives in Guernsey.
Truth in reviewing: I didn't know anything about the island of Guernsey before I saw the movie. After I had watched the movie, I did some research to see if what was depicted could, indeed, have happened. In my opinion, the movie depicts events that really could have taken place,
Just for the record, Guernsey is an island in the English Channel, located close to France. When WWII started, the English demilitarized Guernsey, and evacuated most of the children. The German troops occupied the Island until the end of WWII.
Unlike other occupied regions, there was barely any resistance to the Germans. One reason for this is that Hitler was obsessed with Guernsey. He sent an enormous number of soldiers to the island, and fortified it far beyond its military worth. There was one German soldier for just three of the populace. Most of the resistance came in the form of trying to help the people brought to Guernsey as forced laborers.
The movie presents the type of symbolic resistance that occurred in Guernsey--people gathering on a regular basis to discuss literary and other matters free of German interference.
The basic plot--sophisticated young woman goes to a rural area and is changed by it--isn't very subtle. However, an interesting movie isn't hurt by a romantic plot. The film was, indeed, an interesting movie, and I enjoyed it.
The movie has a solid IMDb rating of 7.3. I thought that it was better than that, and rated it 8.
The movie stars Jessica Brown Findlay as Elizabeth McKenna, a London-based author, and Michiel Huisman as Dawsey Adams, a man who lives in Guernsey.
Truth in reviewing: I didn't know anything about the island of Guernsey before I saw the movie. After I had watched the movie, I did some research to see if what was depicted could, indeed, have happened. In my opinion, the movie depicts events that really could have taken place,
Just for the record, Guernsey is an island in the English Channel, located close to France. When WWII started, the English demilitarized Guernsey, and evacuated most of the children. The German troops occupied the Island until the end of WWII.
Unlike other occupied regions, there was barely any resistance to the Germans. One reason for this is that Hitler was obsessed with Guernsey. He sent an enormous number of soldiers to the island, and fortified it far beyond its military worth. There was one German soldier for just three of the populace. Most of the resistance came in the form of trying to help the people brought to Guernsey as forced laborers.
The movie presents the type of symbolic resistance that occurred in Guernsey--people gathering on a regular basis to discuss literary and other matters free of German interference.
The basic plot--sophisticated young woman goes to a rural area and is changed by it--isn't very subtle. However, an interesting movie isn't hurt by a romantic plot. The film was, indeed, an interesting movie, and I enjoyed it.
The movie has a solid IMDb rating of 7.3. I thought that it was better than that, and rated it 8.