![]() Her burdens are increased rather than lessened with the arrival of a pair of rich Americans, and the romance that ensues. ![]() In the absence of their mother, Cassandara has begun to shoulder some of the responsibility for her brother, precocious and emotionally catatonic father. ![]() But her ongoing contemplation of her madcap family is born of concern rather than self-obsession. Bereft of makeup and hair shorn to an unflattering bob, constantly scribbling in her diary, she is the embodiment of the intellectual teen her capacity for articulating cascading emotions seeing her forming a passionate bond with the written word. ![]() However it's the performance of the divine Romola Garai, as the middle child Cassandra, that really makes this film work. This film is just begging for the tag 'Charmingly eccentric 30s romantic drama', complete as it is with Empire line dresses, stunning countryside locations and a whimsical, bickering family. ![]()
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