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Mrs Lowry & Son

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United Kingdom · 2019
1h 31m
Director Adrian Noble
Starring Vanessa Redgrave, Timothy Spall, Wendy Morgan, Stephen Lord
Genre Drama

An intimate portrayal of the relationship between one of greatest artists of the 20th century, L.S. Lowry and his unhappy and controlling mother, Elizabeth, whom he lived with all his life.

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40

Time Out by

An uneventful, overly stuffy approach to a painter who, as this mother continually tells us, was considered outlandishly strange.

70

Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein

If often sad and unsettling, the film is also livelier and less oppressive than it may sound thanks to the fine writing, deft direction by Adrian Noble, and the superb, if painful interplay between Redgrave and Spall.

30

Variety by Guy Lodge

The disappointment of Mrs. Lowry & Son is that it finds neither of its star attractions at the peak of their powers: Both Spall and Redgrave feel stifled and stiff-jointed, hemmed in by a thin, shallow-focus script that betrays its origins as a radio play all too easily.

40

Empire by Ian Freer

Despite the formidable talents of Timothy Spall and Vanessa Redgrave, Mrs Lowry & Son doesn’t really get under the skin of the artist or the man, resulting in a film as dreary as Pendlebury’s colourless skies.

40

CineVue by Jamie Neish

Spall and Redgrave are both magnificent, rising above the material in a way only talented actors can. One wonders what they could have done with more interesting and passionate material.

50

RogerEbert.com by Peter Sobczynski

Unless you are a L.S. Lowry fan of the highest order, the only reason to sit through Mrs. Lowry & Son is to watch actors as strong as Timothy Spall and Vanessa Redgrave going toe-to-toe for 90 minutes.

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