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Gosford Park (2001) (Patreon)

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2025-07-29 02:48:38
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Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Kristin Scott Thomas, Michael Gambon, Kelly MacDonald, Ryan Phillippe, Clive Owen, Jeremy Northam, Derek Jacobi, Eileen Atkins, Richard E. Grant, Emily Watkins, Charles Dance, Geraldine Somerville, Tom Hollander, Stephen Fry, Jeremy Swift, Sophie Thompson

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Jeff

The writer of this film, Julian Fellowes, went on to create "Downton Abbey." The series was originally going to be a spinoff of this movie, but he instead made it a standalone show and set it twenty years earlier. I'm hoping this whet your appetite for more of the same, and you'll be diving into "Downton Abbey" at some point in the near future.

Allison O

What I really love is that it’s Mary who quietly solves the whole thing despite being the newest person to the situation, and numerous other people who should have had the relevant information but just didn’t care enough. I don’t know if you recognized Sophie Thompson as the maid Dorothy, she was Lydia in Four Weddings and a Funeral. Fun other note, when this came out it was sort of famous for Americans having to watch it with the subtitles on because of the accents plus Altman’s style of dialogue. (Btw MASH the movie is the absolute worst for this; I’m not sure I understood half of what anyone said in that)

Jeff

The actor who played Mr. Blond, the late arrival who hooks up with Bertha, looked familiar to me so I looked him up. His name is Trent Ford, better known to us as the infamous Jean-Paul from "The West Wing."

Actuarial Lurker

Great film- nominated for 7 Oscars and 9 BAFTA awards but was up against A Beautiful Mind so only won ONE Oscar. Cinematography is great

Kt B

The thing that this movie drives home to me is how much influence men held over these women. The two sisters cut cards over who would marry Lord McCordle, because their father was set on it. Mabel, the heiress to the glove maker, was married off to someone who just wanted her for her money. The Countess, Lady Trentham, was dependent on his lordship for her allowance. Isobel McCordle’s prospects were entirely colored by how much she stood to inherit and when, because it was that her future husband would be chasing. The concept of their happiness and autonomy had no bearing on their fate, and although money gave them a comfortable life, they were still trapped by it (thus the sisters who really would have been happier if they’d swapped husbands). Then you have the casual access to the women’s bodies. How many times was Isobel fondled when she kept telling Mr. Nesbitt to stop? How many people did George grope before he got a reputation for being “handsy,” such that new maids had to be warned to watch themselves? How many people put their hands and lips on Mary without her having any say or anyone to protect her and tell them to stop? Of course, Elsie was complacent with her affair with his lordship, but what would have been the consequence of turning him down if she had objected? And she was just the most recent in a very long line of women he’d taken advantage of just because he felt like it, and society told him he was entitled. The ending scene with the two sisters grieving their lost children is heartbreaking, and it’s monstrous to know that the reason why they still worked in his household is because he had ruined them, so they couldn’t get work anywhere else without starting a brand new life with a new identity and no references. Then they got to watch as he and others did the same thing over and over and over, right in front of their faces. Whether the women who were used were enjoying it or distressed by it, they bore all the consequences, and it was massively unfair. And somehow, some way, that has been the fate of women all over the world in patriarchal cultures. Whenever people wax poetic about the past being a simpler time, all I have to do is remember this movie to remind me that it’s a bunch of BS, no matter where you fell in the social order.

Joy M

If you are a fan of Gosford and Downton you might enjoy From Time to Time on Amazon. It’s a movie directed by Julian Fellowes and stars Maggie Smith and a number of other Downton actors plus one GOT actress and a Harry Potter actor. https://youtu.be/mdu7OVpqkbo?si=FRHTI68UZ3TCCvCY