Apart from Rene Zellweger and her unfortunately pursing and pouting mouth being absolutely the wrong actor for this role, the movie itself did Miss Potter no favours.
Beatrix Potter was a well-respected scientist(though not always by the scientific men who thought women should stay in the kitchen and not dabble in such things)who proved that lichens were a symbiotic link between fungus and algae. Her minute observations of nature were her major interest and she was famous throughout England for her scientific papers on these subjects.
Not one hint of this in the movie, or her remarkable personality which lifted her above her peers.
Potter and Millie Warne were intelligent "blustockings", women with innovative brains who felt there was a better life than being shackled to a man as his domestic slave and bringing up children (a very revolutionary idea at that time) and yet were portrayed in the film as a bored and boring old maids pretending they did not want to marry because no one suitable had asked them! What an insult to both women and women in general.
This is a nice film with all that such a word implies. Inspid and bland (not Pigling, who along with many of Potter's other famous characters is never mentioned) and lacking in the fire and verve which made up such an interesting and clever woman.
Lovely, brooding scenery of the north country and the animation is a nice touch, showing us how real the characters were to Beatrix.
But the filmmakers sold the incredible Miss Potter short.
And one last curmudgeonly comment: not since the invention of Panstick, which users often applied up to, but not beyond, the jawline, giving them a pink face and a white neck, have I seen such appalling makeup - what were they thinking of?
Beatrix Potter was a well-respected scientist(though not always by the scientific men who thought women should stay in the kitchen and not dabble in such things)who proved that lichens were a symbiotic link between fungus and algae. Her minute observations of nature were her major interest and she was famous throughout England for her scientific papers on these subjects.
Not one hint of this in the movie, or her remarkable personality which lifted her above her peers.
Potter and Millie Warne were intelligent "blustockings", women with innovative brains who felt there was a better life than being shackled to a man as his domestic slave and bringing up children (a very revolutionary idea at that time) and yet were portrayed in the film as a bored and boring old maids pretending they did not want to marry because no one suitable had asked them! What an insult to both women and women in general.
This is a nice film with all that such a word implies. Inspid and bland (not Pigling, who along with many of Potter's other famous characters is never mentioned) and lacking in the fire and verve which made up such an interesting and clever woman.
Lovely, brooding scenery of the north country and the animation is a nice touch, showing us how real the characters were to Beatrix.
But the filmmakers sold the incredible Miss Potter short.
And one last curmudgeonly comment: not since the invention of Panstick, which users often applied up to, but not beyond, the jawline, giving them a pink face and a white neck, have I seen such appalling makeup - what were they thinking of?