Hilary and Jackie
1,336
Drama
This movie tells the true story of the tragic life of the brilliant international concert cellist Jacqueline Du Pré and her sister, Hilary. Despite starting out in music together, Hilary chooses a more normal life in having a husband and children. Jacqueline gets married too but can never seem to quite achieve the happiness of the mundane life Hilary has and Hilary's devotion to her sister causes them to take some rather drastic ... [+]
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"Emily Watson is ravishingly good -- and brings an amazing focus and intensity to what could have been a disease-of-the-week picture" | ||||
"A compelling look at the most intimate and troubling of family dynamics" | ||||
"One of the most insightful and wrenching portraits of the joys and tribulations of being a classical musician ever filmed" | ||||
"An astoundingly moving and elegiac meditation on life, love, music, and the bonds of blood" | ||||
"The movie makes no attempt to soften the material or make it comforting through the cliches of melodrama." | ||||
"An imaginatively told tale of sibling rivalry and the pressures of great expectations" |
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