Leave All Fair (1985)
- Directed by
- John Reid
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- New Zealand
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Rated
- G
- Rating
- 8.5 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A young woman discovers letters from the dying writer Katherine Mansfield to her husband John Middleton Murry. The film shows Murry as a self-righteous man who exploited Mansfield's legacy and treated her poorly when she was alive. Flashbacks reveal Mansfield's life through the eyes of the woman reading the letters.
reflectivemelancholicslow-pacedliterarysomberintrospectivefrench provincialbittersweet
What happens
Leave All Fair is a 1985 New Zealand made film starring John Gielgud as John Middleton Murry the husband of Katherine Mansfield. He is presented as a sanctimonious exploiter of her memory, who ill-treated her during their association. Jane Birkin plays both Mansfield in flashbacks and the fictitious Marie Taylor who finds a letter from the dying Mansfield to Murry in his papers. The theme was developed by New Zealand director Stanley Harper, but he was fired two weeks before shooting, and John Reid took over the project, introducing the "ghost" element and the two time frames. Shot in France at Moulin d'Ande and St Pierre du Vauvray with finance raised by Pacific Films, the film had to be finished before the 1984 cut-off date for New Zealand tax breaks. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
More like this
Bliss
The Assam Garden (1985)
The Piano (1993)
Déjà Vu (1985)
James Joyce's Women (1985)
Handle with Care (1985)
Love Letter (1985)
The Quiet Earth (1985)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.