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20. Deep Impact (1998)

In a brief but memorable role as a socialite dumped by her husband, Redgrave cuts through the schmaltz to provide some of this disaster movie’s most affecting moments. She also happens to be mother of the reporter breaking the story that a comet is about to wipe out life on Earth.

19. Howards End (1992)

This is a quintessential slice of Brit Lit from the Merchant Ivory team, and catnip for fans of costume drama with lashings of period detail. Redgrave picked up her sixth Academy Award nomination in the pivotal role of Ruth Wilcox, whose shaky handwriting on her deathbed sets EM Forster’s plot in motion.

18. Julia (1977)

At a time when Redgrave’s leftwing politics and support of the Palestine Liberation Organisation were attracting more attention than her acting, she won an Oscar for playing Lillian Hellman’s bestie – a member of the European anti-Nazi resistance in Europe in Fred Zinneman’s plodding adaptation of Hellman’s supposed memoirs. The awards ceremony was duly picketed by the far-right Jewish Defense League.

17. The Bostonians (1984)

More tasteful Merchant Ivory shenanigans as Redgrave does a creditable job of injecting vitality into the character of Olive Chancellor, suffragist and repressed lesbian. She is certainly livelier than the strait-laced cousin from Mississippi (Christopher Reeve), vying with her for the affections of a charismatic young woman.

16. Atonement (2007)

In 1935, young Briony makes a mistake that ruins the lives of her sister and her sister’s lover. Decades later, Redgrave plays the older Briony, now being interviewed as a successful novelist, and is tasked with delivering the story’s payload. She does not disappoint: “I gave them their happiness.”

15. Agatha (1979)

Michael Apted’s film spins a preposterous but diverting thesis about an 11-day period in 1926 when Agatha Christie went awol. Redgrave plays the dazed but determine

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Letters to Juliet(opening Friday, May 14) is like a chocolate truffle—a little too sweet, delicious-looking but not that filling.

Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), a fact checker and aspiring writer at The New Yorker, takes a pre-honeymoon to Verona, Italy with her fiancé, Victor (Gael Garcia Bernal), since it’s the only time he can spare before the opening of his restaurant. Victor is immediately caught up in finding the perfect truffles and wine for his restaurant, leaving Sophie alone to explore the town and Juliet’s house. There she finds letters taped to the wall, messages from women asking Juliet for advice, romantic and otherwise. Sophie also meets a group of women who answer these letters, calling themselves secretaries of Juliet.

After finding a letter from 1957 written by a Claire Smith (Vanessa Redgrave) about her lost love Lorenzo Bartolini, Sophie writes the woman back, encouraging her to find him. Soon, Claire shows up with her impatient grandson, Charlie (Christopher Egan), and the three set off to visit all the Lorenzo Bartolinis within a certain radius to see if The One is among them (a montage with several different Lorenzos is quite amusing). Along the way, the annoyance Charlie and Sophie feel for each other develops into something else.

The main reasons to see this movie are the resplendent Vanessa Redgrave—she practically radiates light on screen—and the gorgeous Italian scenery. Redgrave elevates the material with her mere presence, giving it an elegance it may have lacked otherwise. It’s because of her I found my eyes wet at one point.

The sun-drenched Verona and Siena vistas are another major draw, at least for me, since I went there several years ago and this was like my travel album coming alive but with better pictures. If you’ve never been, it’ll serve as a beautiful primer and/or inexpensive virtual vacation. You’ll want to eat Italian food afterward, drink Carpazo wine and take

2010 American romantic drama film directed by Gary Winick

Letters to Juliet is a 2010 American romanticcomedy-drama film starring Amanda Seyfried, Christopher Egan, Gael García Bernal, Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero. This was the final film of director Gary Winick before his death on February 27, 2011.

On Sophie's pre-honeymoon in Verona she inadvertently finds an old unanswered letter asking for love advice from Juliet. Answering it leads to the recipient showing up alongside her grumpy grandson, and the trio search for the old long lost love while new love sparks.

The film was released theatrically in North America and other countries on May 14, 2010. The idea for the film was inspired by the 2006 non-fiction bookLetters to Juliet, by Lise Eve Friedman and Ceil Jann Friedman, which chronicles the phenomenon of letter-writing to Shakespeare's most famous romantic character.

Plot

Sophie is a young American woman who works for The New Yorker as a fact checker. She goes on a pre-honeymoon with her chef fiancé Victor to Verona, Italy. Victor is unmoved by the romance of Italy and uses his time constructively to conduct research for his soon-to-open restaurant, often neglecting Sophie.

As Sophie explores Verona, she learns that thousands of "letters to Juliet" are left in Juliet's courtyard each year, written by women from all over the world seeking comfort and advice in love; the letters are collected and answered by a group called the "Secretaries of Juliet". Intrigued, Sophie asks to join them.

Sophie later discovers an unanswered letter from a young girl named Claire Smith written in 1957, begging Juliet for guidance on her relationship with a boy named Lorenzo Bartolini. On a whim, Sophie answers the letter, and within a few days the now elderly Claire arrives in Verona with her barrister grandson Charlie. Claire and Sophie take an instant liking to each other, while Sophie and Charlie do not get along.