

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
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.