Cinema Wednesdays - Lauriane Pipoz
In our paper edition on order here, Our editor's article on the author of the novel on which the film is based, Pamela Lyndon Travers, a highly original woman for her time!
Set in 1930s England, in the midst of the «Great Depression», this film shows an adult Michael and Jane. Mary returns to look after Michael Banks« three children after the death of his wife a year earlier. With a well-balanced treatment of emotion, humor and imaginative offbeat scenes, this film quickly draws us into its magical world. It opens with a lamplighter on a bicycle singing »It's your lucky day". We also meet a zany captain firing cannonballs every hour and Hélène, the old housekeeper who's losing her head a bit.
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