If you loved Downton Abbey, you will love this period piece film which centers around the young Louise Brooks. I read the best selling novel that this movie is based on a few years back in a book club, and searched to see if a movie was available. I was surprised there wasn't. But, now this movie is available from PBS and it is wonderful. Not only is the story line and characters perfectly crafted, but there are subplots within the film that make this a movie that will pull you in and keep you engaged from start to finish. There were times I thought the movie would go one way, and then things were switched up. I do have to say it got really good at the very end. If you are looking for a good movie to watch from PBS, I highly recommend The Chaperone, which will be available on November 26th on DVD.
About this DVD release:
"Louise Brooks, the 1920s silver screen sensation who never met a rule she didn’t break, epitomized the restless, reckless spirit of the Jazz Age. But, just a few years earlier, she was a 15 year-old student in Wichita, Kansas for whom fame and fortune were only dreams. When the opportunity arises for her to go to New York to study with a leading dance troupe, her mother (Victoria Hill) insists there be a chaperone. Norma Carlisle (Elizabeth McGovern), a local society matron who never broke a rule in her life, impulsively volunteers to accompany Louise (Haley Lu Richardson) to New York for the summer.
Why does this utterly conventional woman do this? What happens to her when she lands in Manhattan with an unusually rebellious teenager as her ward? And, which of the two women is stronger, the uptight wife-and-mother or the irrepressible free spirit? It’s a story full of surprises—about who these women really are, and who they eventually become.
This film has a run time is approximately 2 hours and the SRP is $24.99. The film will be available on November 26, 2019."
Disclosure: I was sent a screener from the vendor in exchange for an honest review. All views shared are mine and mine alone.
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