Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

ustinovquinnconnery This is a romance but a story told in a special way.The camera, and we the viewer, are not observers watching a sequence of events, as is usually the case with American cinema. Rather, as the characters unfold and interact on their travels in Spain, we are sharing the moods of the characters as they dance before our eyes. The hero from America and the heroine from England by chance find a common life and love in the moods of Spain and the moods of European cinema.Look at the picture on screen and feel the mood; then in your mind link that to the words and events.A masterpiece much misunderstood.

treeline1 A lonely spinster (Maggie Smith) and an alienated teenager (Timothy Bottoms) meet in Spain, become friends, and then lovers.This film is interesting mainly as a curiosity, with a 40-years-younger Maggie Smith playing a romantic lead and cavorting in jeans and sneakers. It's a low-budget movie, filmed on location in Spain, that never quite came together for me. I didn't particularly like or understand either Smith's character or that of Timothy Bottoms, who plays her much-younger suitor. They are both unsympathetic and distant and the writing isn't very good. The first half of the story moves at a snail's pace with little dialogue and even less action. Their awkward romance never rang true for me and didn't touched me emotionally.Smith isn't as old as she's supposed to be and Bottoms looked older that he should, so they didn't create quite the odd couple they should have. The movie was neither a good comedy nor drama and I didn't care much for it.

anastasioj In the 70s I saw this film a number of times. Every time it was be re-released in a theater, I'd take another friend of mine to view this real treat. Maggie Smith was wonderful as the repressed endearing woman embarking on the adventure of her life. I have been looking for years in video stores and on the internet to find it. I thought once Alan Pakula had died there would be a resurgence for all his movies. But, it has been nowhere to be found. I highly recommend it, and welcome hearing form anyone who knows where I May obtain a copy. There must be a problem with distribution rights. I remember many scenes - the one with the bird at the hotel and the one where Maggie Smith attempting to walk dignified has the camera panning at her shoe, where she is dragging some toilet paper. Does anyone know if it is ever shown on AMC or TMC?

ravenesq I saw this film for the first time when it was coupled with "the main film"...The Dove. Fortunately this film came on first and afterwards, during the preview of The Dove, most of the audience left. They clearly had come to see Maggie Smith. This is an absolutely perfect film and I would love to share it with other people.