Movie Review
'This Beautiful Fantastic' is naturally beguiling
This whimsical gardening film sees an unlikely friendship bloom between a quirky young woman and her gruff neighbour
25 June 2017 - 00:00
Despite its silly title, director Simon Aboud’s film The Beautiful Fantastic is a charming bouquet of whimsy, romance and fantasy.
Jessica Brown Findlay plays Bella Brown, a young woman of extreme shyness and delicate sensibilities who works in a library and dreams of writing children ’s books.
She lives next door to an old curmudgeon called Alfie Stevenson (Tom Wilkinson) who loves plants and can’t abide people. The garden that separates them, both literally andfiguratively, inevitably becomes the fruitful ground of their reconciliation.
Quite a lot happens in between, some of it a little sodden and over-mulched, some as light as spring blossom...
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