Keaton’s terrific, and it’s sweet and airy and so unhurried you really feel like you’ve had a nice afternoon in the long grasses and cool breezes on the edge of the city.
Hampstead
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United Kingdom, Belgium · 2017
Rated PG-13 · 1h 42m
Director Joel Hopkins
Starring Diane Keaton, Brendan Gleeson, James Norton, Lesley Manville
Genre Comedy, Romance
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Emily, an American widow living a peaceful existence in London’s idyllic Hampstead Village meets a local recluse named Donald, who has lived for 17 years in a ramshackle hut near the edge of the forest. When Emily learns his home is the target of ruthless developers, saving Donald and his property becomes her personal mission.
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This slight, modestly sweet and mildly charming affair squarely aimed at the older cinemagoer is just the bill for those seniors’ matinées where the ticket comes with a cuppa and a biscuit.
Time Out London by Dave Calhoun
This is an unapologetically fluffy film that never digs deep into its characters’ lives. Its pleasures are patchy. Keaton offers an endearing performance, even if her chemistry with Gleeson (not on top form) is weirdly lacking.
Screen International by Fionnuala Halligan
Watching it is akin to witnessing Maggie Smith’s The Van slowly rear-end Richard Curtis’s Notting Hill: a cringing slow-mo car crash best viewed between your hands.
Gleeson and Keaton, for their part, play this bourgeois rags-to-tweed fairytale with such good humor that one is fleetingly able to overlook the frank bogusness of the mechanics that bring them together.
The Hollywood Reporter by Leslie Felperin
The extemporized feel to some of the dialogue makes their rapport seem all the more credible and consequently there is something open-hearted and friendly about the performers that keeps the film watchable, for all its faults.
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