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Mitford love in a cold climate6/27/2023 Special mention goes to Jemima Rooper and Anna Popplewell as sex-mad innocents Jassy and Victoria. Still, if the script is a little dodgy, the cast is just about perfect-Alan Bates, as Uncle Matthew, prowls the floor at a deb dance like a Rottweiler on parade Celia Imbrie is delightfully distracted as Aunt Sadie Elisabeth Dermot Walsh and Rosamund Pike are charming as lovely, clueless Linda and the all-seeing narrator, Fanny. Do admit, Fanny! Mitford loyalists will mourn the loss of Uncle Davey they may also wonder why, say, on the page it's Aunt Sadie who can't talk horticulture with a dinner guest because she prefers to leave such matters to the gardeners whereas on the screen it's daughter Linda who can't identify the soup because she prefers to leave them to the cook. My brilliant wife, a fiction editor by trade, spotted a brief two-character scene that didn't seem to make much sense it turned out to be a collage of the zingier lines from three different scenes involving two sets of characters and spread out over twenty pages. Nancy was the first to exploit the glittering vein of inside jokes and family legend that's sustained the Mitford industry for over fifty years, and when her two most popular books, the titular "Cold Climate" and the earlier "Pursuit of Love," were "adapted" (sliced and diced and drastically condensed) to fit this stingy two-episode format, there were bound to be a few loose ends.
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