This is an amazing true story. Eccentric, beautiful and gifted cellist Jacqueline du Pre is just becoming a renowned worldwide musician and has found a great love with a pianist when she comes down with a terrible incurable disease that means she can no longer play. Her sister Hilary (Rachel Griffiths), to whom she is very close, watches her decline. Griffiths isn't given much to do except look worried. It's an interesting movie but I feel Emily Mortimer is the wrong person for the Du Pre role. Her accent isn't always clear.. Isn't Jacqueline English? The cinematography is lush but unrestrained. Every scene is like an opera piece with lingering looks, sweeping, arty landscapes and (perhaps understandably) melodramatic music. It left me a bit unmoved - it may have benefited from a more laidback, down to earth style.
Review of Hilary and Jackie
