It sounds like a winning pitch: Four celebrated English actresses, each a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, gather to discuss their long, storied careers. Apparently it’s something they do on a regular basis anyway; this time, director Roger Michell and his camera were allowed to sit in. And Michell isn’t pushing; we can hear his voice off-camera, lobbing the softest of questions. Smith confesses she’s never watched Downton Abbey, though she was given a box-set by the producers. But it would have been nice to have Michell give them more pointed queries than: “What was it like working with your husbands?” Plowright was married to Olivier, for heaven’s sake!

Source: National Post November 29, 2018 17:48 UTC