I Capture the Castle (2003)

Cautiously Recommended

UK

Feature Film

Director: Tim Fywell

Writers: Heidi Thomas, Dodie Smith

Cinematographer: Richard Greatrex

Composer: Dario Marianelli

Cast: Romola Garai, Rose Byrne, Marc Blucas, Henry Thomas, Bill Nighy, Tara Fitzgerald, Henry Cavill, Joe Sowerbutts, Sinead Cusack

A 17-year-old aspiring writer, who lives with her eccentric family in a derelict castle in rural 1930s England, struggles to understand the nature of love, which she believes should be of the true kind even though she only encounters the unrequited kind, as she and everyone around her proceeds to fall for everyone that they shouldn’t, in this gentle and mildly entertaining if generally forgettable period piece, which is most notable for Garai’s assured performance. Iain.Stott