Enid (2009)

Directed by

James Hawes

Genre

drama film, biographical film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

16

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 38 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A biographical TV film about the life of children's author Enid Blyton. It follows her relationships with two husbands and shows how her orderly stories differed from her messy personal life.

reflectivemelancholicintimatebittersweetrestrainedcharacter-drivennostalgic

What happens

Enid is a 2009 British biographical television film first broadcast on 16 November on BBC Four. Directed by James Hawes it is based on the life of children's writer Enid Blyton, portrayed by Helena Bonham Carter. The film introduced the two main lovers of Blyton's life. Her first husband Hugh Pollock, who was also her publisher, was played by Matthew Macfadyen. Kenneth Darrell Waters, a London surgeon who became Blyton's second husband, was portrayed by Denis Lawson. The film explored how the orderly, reassuringly clear worlds Blyton created within her stories contrasted with the complexity of her own personal life. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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