It's another gray day here today.............it really does affect ones mood, ones light, ones demeanor when it continues for days. I adore places like Seattle but I don't know how the residents do it when it's like this for an long period of time.
I went around my house looking at colors.........absorbing them......drinking them in and touching it and holding it to the dim light of the windows in some cases. On days like these it's more important than ever to surround yourself with hue and saturation's of color wherever you can find them.
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The mail came and with it brought the brand new DVD release of one of my other all time favorite movies.(up to now it was only available in VHS). I am so thrilled because I had TiVo'd it and watch it on repeat...........now I can play it in my studio whenever I want.
This, in case you've never seen it, is my synopsis.
It is about a woman named Lottie (Josie Lawrence), who on a gray, rainy, miserable 1920's London day while riding the train sees an advert in a newspaper:
TO THOSE WHO APPRECIATE
WISTERIA AND SUNSHINE
SMALL, MEDIEVAL ITALIAN CASTLE
on the shores of the Mediterranean to
be Let Furnished for the month of
April, Servants remain
Write Box z 1045, The Times E.C.4.
It occurs to her how very much she needs to get away....away from the weather, her miserable, dreary, ordinary life(including her husband). In a local Woman's club she approaches a woman named Rose (Miranda Richardson)who she doesn't really know but who also seems to have seen the advert by the look on her face as she reads the paper. Lottie begins to tell her how she pictures them there.....renting the castle. After much persistence Lottie gets Rose(who also feels somewhat lost and alone in her life and marriage as well) to agree to share the castle. But in going over expenses they decide to advertise for 2 other women to share the month making it easier to manage financially. The third person ends up being an older woman who walks with a cane and who lives in her memories of all the people she knew but were now dead. Seemingly aloof and almost unyielding Mrs. Fisher(Joan Plowright) agrees to share the castle. The Fourth is a beautiful woman used to receiving lots of attention, mostly from men, often times unwanted. She just wants to sit and not think and not talk and not be the center of everyone's attention. Time to just be alone and unfettered and quiet...so Lady Caroline(Polly Walker) decides to join the other 3.
This movie is about the affects of San Salvatore on all 4 women when finally they have a chance to think, reflect, ponder and open their hearts. Four different women, four strangers, who at first do not mesh....and who otherwise would never have met nor connected in any social circles....... become enchanted.....in April, in Italy ...with life, love, friendship, each other ....something that no doubt lasts the rest of their lives.
I also love the music.
The movie was based on the book An Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim in 1922.
and filmed in Portofino, Italy.
So if you haven't seen it RENT it, if you have seen it but it's been awhile.....SEE IT again. I think you will agree everyone needs a "Lottie" in their life!
And who wouldn't want to stay in a castle by the sea in Italy for an entire month??
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Go now.........surround yourself in color.........and seek some enchantment!!
oh and if you should find that castle for let.......please, do ring me!
Love,
Lisa
XOXOXOXO
