{"id":26916,"date":"2016-09-23T03:15:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T20:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/dare-to-be-wild-review-chelsea-flower-show-drama-is-compost-of-cliche\/"},"modified":"2016-09-23T03:21:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T20:21:27","slug":"dare-to-be-wild-review-chelsea-flower-show-drama-is-compost-of-cliche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/dare-to-be-wild-review-chelsea-flower-show-drama-is-compost-of-cliche\/","title":{"rendered":"Dare to Be Wild review \u2013 Chelsea flower show drama is compost of cliche"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nBased on the story of Irish landscape designer Mary Reynolds competing at Chelsea in 2002, this outsider movie undermines its eco message with sentiment This sappy, in every sense, based-on-a-true story drama tells the story of how Irish landscape designer Mary Reynolds (played by Emma Greenwell) came to compete at the 2002 Chelsea flower show. Reynolds\u2019 entry was a Celtic-themed space made with mature hawthorn trees, weathered stone, wildflowers and lots of waffle about the sanctity of untamed nature. The underlying eco-message is laudable, and the filmmakers deserve respect for getting a movie about garden design financed at all, but they do lay the sentiment on thick with a bulldozer, smothering the good bits with a dense compost of mawkishness and cliche. Consequently, Reynolds comes across here not just as an iconoclastic outsider but as a hippie sprite with Timotei-advert hair who must go to battle with the punctilious tweed-suited upper-class twits who control the Chelsea floor show. Meanwhile, her romantic entanglement with garden builder and part-time fiddle-player Christy Collard (Tom Hughes) becomes an Out of Africa-style love across continents. At least the gardens are, as you would expect, spectacularly beautiful. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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