Gemma Arterton and Gugu Mbatha-Raw star in playwright Jessica Swale's feature debut 'Summerland,' a home-front drama set in a coastal English village during World War II
Both Gemma Arterton and Gugu Mbatha-Raw enjoyed success on the London stage in the title role of playwright Jessica Swale's comedy about Restoration actress and royal mistressSummerland
Arterton plays Alice Lamb, a writer who has shut herself off from the world in her seaside cottage in Kent. She's first encountered in her senior years played by Penelope Wilton in 1975, banging away at her typewriter and responding tersely to local kids who interrupt her work while collecting for charity. The younger Alice is no less crabby, chain-smoking as she strides around in high-waisted Katharine Hepburn-style trousers with a wild mane of hair flying behind her.
Before that happens, however, the gradual reopening of Alice's heart keeps taking her mind back to her time in the 1920s with Vera , the glamorous beauty who was the great love of her life until she pulled away to answer the call of motherhood. Through an unlikely exchange of dialogue that rings not remotely true for wartime England, Frank intuits the secret of Alice's romantic past and is instantly accepting.
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