Rosaleen Linehan stars a Winnie a woman who is terminally happy despite being buried in sand under the hot sun.
I'm mixed about this film. Its quite literally the play as written since Winnie is in a place like Beckett had written, namely an expanse of sand. The trouble is it doesn't make for really interesting cinema since our main character is stuck and never moves. I know this play works on stage where our view is limited, but here with film's ability to go anywhere the play falls down simply because there is nowhere we can go to without losing sight of our heroine. Yes the camera shifts angles and perspectives, and yes it has a great performance by Rosaleen Linehan but other than that this is basically 75 minute monologue of a cheerful woman that is too static for the cinema. (Though in the interest of fairness I've always felt this play was way too long to begin with)
I'm mixed about this film. Its quite literally the play as written since Winnie is in a place like Beckett had written, namely an expanse of sand. The trouble is it doesn't make for really interesting cinema since our main character is stuck and never moves. I know this play works on stage where our view is limited, but here with film's ability to go anywhere the play falls down simply because there is nowhere we can go to without losing sight of our heroine. Yes the camera shifts angles and perspectives, and yes it has a great performance by Rosaleen Linehan but other than that this is basically 75 minute monologue of a cheerful woman that is too static for the cinema. (Though in the interest of fairness I've always felt this play was way too long to begin with)