Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives in the Mediterranean to stay with her headstrong daughter. Shifting through time, and falling into place like the pieces of a jigsaw, the truth of Penelope's rich, heartbreaking and surprising life unfolds.
Acting
Redgrave's face does three decades of regret in one glance.
Cinematography
Ibiza glows like a memory you wish you had.
Costume
Penelope's wardrobe ages her story without saying a word.
Director
Piers Haggard
Vanessa Redgrave
Penelope Keeling
Maximilian Schell
Lawrence Sterne
Charles Edwards
Noel Keeling
Prunella Scales
Dolly Keeling
Victoria Smurfit
Olivia Keeling
Victoria Hamilton
Nancy Chamberlaine
Sebastian Koch
Cosmo König
Stephanie Stumph
Antonia König
Richard Hope
George Chamberlaine
Lucas Gregorowicz
Danus Muirfield
Alastair Mackenzie
Richard
Hugh Sachs
Roy Brookner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rosamunde Pilcher's 1987 novel stayed on German bestseller lists for over 600 weeks; this adaptation barely got a theatrical release.
Piers Haggard directed this at 71, roughly Penelope's age—explaining why the film refuses to treat older women's desires as quaint.
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