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Director Robert Altman. Top credits Director Robert Altman. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Gosford Park. Photos Top cast Edit. Robert Altman. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Set in the s, the story takes place in an old-fashioned English country house where a weekend shooting party is underway.
Getting on in years, William has become a benefactor to many of his relatives and friends. As the weekend goes on, secrets are revealed, and it seems that everyone, above stairs and below, wants a piece of William and his money, but how far will they go to get it?
Tea At Four. Dinner At Eight. Murder At Midnight. Rated R for some language and brief sexuality. Did you know Edit. Inspector Thompson decides to let everyone leave, as he has their addresses anyway.
The guests depart one by one, while Mrs. Croft comforts her grieving sister in private, putting to rest their feud. The film is a study of the British class system during the s; Stephen Fry , Inspector Thompson in the film, says that it shows the upper class's dependency on a servant class.
For example, the film takes a subtle look at sexual mores during the s. As it is set in , between the world wars , the impact of the First World War is also explored in the film's screenplay.
Writing for PopMatters , Cynthia Fuchs described surface appearances, rather than complex interpersonal relationships, as a theme of the film. He called it a blend between this literary style and that of the 19th century novel. Themes from the film were picked up and integrated into the series Downton Abbey by Julian Fellowes. Maggie Smith starred again in her role as a dowager countess, this time her title not being Trentham but Grantham.
In , Bob Balaban asked Robert Altman if there were something they could develop together, and Altman suggested a whodunit. The original title of the film was The Other Side of the Tapestry, but Altman thought it was awkward.
Fellowes began looking through some books and came up with Gosford Park. But when you make a picture using a name, that's its name. It's not a gripping title. But then MASH wasn't either. Fellowes says the screenplay was "not an homage to Agatha Christie , but a reworking of that genre. He notes that in certain large scenes with many characters, the actors were left room to improvise. Arthur Inch , the retired butler of Sir Richard and Lady Kleinwort , was the consultant on correct procedures and arrangements for dining on the set.
Inch is credited as "Butler" immediately before Altman as Director in the final credits. Ruth Mott was the consultant for the kitchen, [12] and Violet Liddle for the parlour maids.
In Gosford Park , as in many of his other films, Altman had a list of actors he intended to appear in the film before it was cast formally. The film's casting director was Mary Selway , whom producer David Levy described as knowing many British actors. Jude Law dropped out of the production just before the shoot began, and he was replaced by Ryan Phillippe.
Kenneth Branagh and Robert Bathurst were both tied down by scheduling conflicts. Wrotham Park , where outdoor and the ground floor scenes for Gosford Park were shot. Filming was conducted at Wrotham Park for the exteriors, staircase, dining room and drawing room, [14] and Syon House for the upstairs bedrooms.
Sound stages were built to film the scenes of the manor's downstairs area. The film was shot with two cameras, both moving perpetually in opposite directions. The cameras pointed toward no specific area, intended to cause the audience to move their eyes throughout the scene.
Altman notes that most of the film's cast had experience in theatre and in film, meaning they had acted in situations where the view of the audience is not on one specific actor, and each audience member sees a slightly different image of the players on stage. He shot the film on Kodak Vision Expression T film stock generally with two Panavision cameras, using lighting ranging from relatively dim candles to bright hydrargyrum medium-arc iodide lamps.
Roger Ebert awarded it his highest rating of four stars, describing the story as "such a joyous and audacious achievement it deserves comparison with his [Robert Altman's] very best movies. He described one of its themes as "illuminating a society and a way of life on the verge of extinction", [28] placing the interwar setting as an integral part of the film's class study.
However, he notes that because Altman is an independent observer of the society he portrays in the film, it does not have the biting qualities of his previous social commentaries such as Short Cuts , set in the director's home country of the United States. Gosford Park ' s cinematography was a focus of several critics. CNN 's Paul Clinton praised Andrew Dunn's camera work, describing it as "lush and rich; the camera glides up and down the stairs of the grand estate, the period look is beautifully crafted.
Gosford Park was nominated for 61 different awards following its release, winning 25 of them. The critic Ed Gonzalez reviewed the DVD negatively, calling the picture quality "atrocious on the small screen", going on to say that "the image quality of this video transfer is downright lousy from start to finish.
Gonzalez wrote that " Gosford Park sounds amazing for a film so dialogue-dependent" [31] and Mack that "the audio transfer is about as good as it can get on a movie of this style. Patrick Doyle composed the film's score. Culture Wikia Explore. Wiki Content. Duke Ellington DJ Shadow!!! Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account?
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