All Passion Spent

Starring: Hiller, Wendy

The acclaimed BBC adaptation of Vita Sackville-West’s beloved novel starring Dame Wendy Hille. Dame Wendy Hiller delivers a delicately nuanced performance in Vita Sackville-West’s classic story of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• Release Date: May 2006
• Rating: Unrated (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Acorn Media Publishing
• Director: Friend, Martyn
• Starring: Hiller, Wendy
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: Color; DVD; Full Screen; NTSC
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

We give up is some weird Ollie.

Lady Slane (Wendy Hiller) spent all her life being an et ux. She enjoyed being the wife of the viceroy, a mother, and a leader of charities. However, when her husband died, she finally, against her children’s wishes, had time to contemplate her life, what it could have been, and what it will be. She moved into a smaller house that she had seen 30 years before. Now she strikes up a friendship with people such as the house owner, the craftsman repairing the house, and others. Unknown to her is a friend of one of her sons, who knew her 60 years ago in India. He relived the time, and she realized that they both had a great depth that was not required of them at the time, forming a unique friendship. We get the privilege of watching Lady Slane make her discoveries and the reaction to this by the family. Of particular interest is that her great-granddaughter is now on the cusp of making the same life choice that Lady Slane succumbed to. Based on the novel by Vita Sackville-West, "All Passion Spent," we see a lot of Vita’s real-life parallels. The screen adaptation is by Peter Buckman. This film has that BBC quality.