Bonneville
Added 9/14/2009
Cute story. Alot of my family loved the idea of passing the ashes. Loved all the actors.
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Great movie
Added 8/20/2009
Watched "Bonneville" movie while in a mountain cabin theatre room with several Red Hat Society Memebers! Would recommend it!
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Some odd feeling of hope
Added 7/13/2009
I really enjoyed watching this female road trip movie. Basically my movie watching has been limited, so I really appreciate the ones I catch. At 50 myself it seemed to talk to me. As stated here, all over these pages, a character Lange inhabits is taking the ashes of her husband to places (in his Bonneville) that he loved resisting a daughter's demands (previous wife) for her father's return. Yes the ashes. She really can't bring him to her in any sense of the word, and the movie is touching as Arvilla and her two friends travel her memories, good thoughts, grief into the present. While slowly scattering him as she goes. In a way what I took from the film was the importance of her doing what she does, and she does this to reclaim herself within the now. She faces, I suppose, her fears/pain/grief or her realities and decides within the context of the story that she will deal with where she is, it is, it's a lovely way to be told through good acting and lovely landscapes. Worth the afternoon. Since these are spaces I know well in my life it meant something more maybe. At least it felt familiar.
I get cheered by the fact that her friend finds a love along the way- her chubby, interesting, caring friend. And who she finds- he's just a good person played so nicely. I liked that. It's just there the possibility. You have no idea how much i appreciated that. I appreciated the fact that a good actress inhabited that part.
If you like women's films, roadtrip movies, if you want to think about a woman facing the loss of a spouse, her realities, the strangeness of families in relationship to this, if you like movies that are small and intimate, like pretty sunlight, conversation, nice acting you might enjoy this. I'd take it along to a cabin in the mountains or to watch it if meeting with a friend of mine to go see something new as our life opens up. As my children are growing into their lives, it seems like the kind of piece speaking to a woman about her own inner life, the place of her recollection, memories, about honoring the times of a life and moving into next days. Really nice.
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watched it on TV now on to buy it
Added 6/4/2009
Was in a blue mood..glued to the couch..happened to catch the movie on cable..helped me out of my slump..just what I needed today--got on Amazon to purchase.I only have a few dvds as not many impress me as much as this did! Linda
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Absolutely Wonderful
Added 3/26/2009
My friend and I went to see this movie and I fell in love with it. Joan Allen, Kathy Bates and Jessica Lange had such a great repore with each other. They take a cross country trip in Jessica's husbands Bonneville to deliver his ashes to his daughter in California. If she does this the daughter will let Jessica stay in the house she has lived in for 20 years with her husband. Jessica doesn't like the idea of burying her husband but instead wants to spread his ashes in places where they shared memories. Along the way they meet Tom Skerrit, a trucker. There is beautiful scenery and lots of laughs along their journey.
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Bonneville
Added 9/14/2009
Cute story. Alot of my family loved the idea of passing the ashes. Loved all the actors.
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Great movie
Added 8/20/2009
Watched "Bonneville" movie while in a mountain cabin theatre room with several Red Hat Society Memebers! Would recommend it!
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Some odd feeling of hope
Added 7/13/2009
I really enjoyed watching this female road trip movie. Basically my movie watching has been limited, so I really appreciate the ones I catch. At 50 myself it seemed to talk to me. As stated here, all over these pages, a character Lange inhabits is taking the ashes of her husband to places (in his Bonneville) that he loved resisting a daughter's demands (previous wife) for her father's return. Yes the ashes. She really can't bring him to her in any sense of the word, and the movie is touching as Arvilla and her two friends travel her memories, good thoughts, grief into the present. While slowly scattering him as she goes. In a way what I took from the film was the importance of her doing what she does, and she does this to reclaim herself within the now. She faces, I suppose, her fears/pain/grief or her realities and decides within the context of the story that she will deal with where she is, it is, it's a lovely way to be told through good acting and lovely landscapes. Worth the afternoon. Since these are spaces I know well in my life it meant something more maybe. At least it felt familiar.
I get cheered by the fact that her friend finds a love along the way- her chubby, interesting, caring friend. And who she finds- he's just a good person played so nicely. I liked that. It's just there the possibility. You have no idea how much i appreciated that. I appreciated the fact that a good actress inhabited that part.
If you like women's films, roadtrip movies, if you want to think about a woman facing the loss of a spouse, her realities, the strangeness of families in relationship to this, if you like movies that are small and intimate, like pretty sunlight, conversation, nice acting you might enjoy this. I'd take it along to a cabin in the mountains or to watch it if meeting with a friend of mine to go see something new as our life opens up. As my children are growing into their lives, it seems like the kind of piece speaking to a woman about her own inner life, the place of her recollection, memories, about honoring the times of a life and moving into next days. Really nice.
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