The lady in the van

Or how Maggie Smith does troll us again. 

Yes, Dame M. Smith is on again. Hardly making any holiday it seems from making movies and TV Shows and being guest on Talking Shows. 

Now she is playing another role of her live I may suggest. Thought she played this part already in the 90tis on stage in London- around 1999. 

Now the Lady in the van is a story which is more or lesson true and happend to be about a real person which Alan Bennet meet years ago. A women who came with her car and parked outside his new house and finally in his parking space/ garden and did not left him before 15 years have gone buy. 

The book is a bit different to the stage play and the movie also from both but after reading the book and seeing the movie I can assure you that the movie is a very good adaptation. Different from the storytelling but telling the story in a warm and nice way. With quite a lot of humor and a soft storytelling and this made it lovely to see, as the actors all had a very good chance to dig into the caracters and play as well as possible and even more. The story freely told and a bit like a fairy tale, touches and will not let you without tears of laughter and cry. 

It's not a big movie, not very long, but entertaining, marvelous and warming. You can watch it alone or with friends- it is always perfect. 

Maggie Smith who has the main part, plays that vagabond and a bit crazy women without any hasitation and completly without vanity. She shows age, she shows insanity, she shows hunger for life, but also fear and hope and the which of being human, being self. A stubborn person who seems to have her very own mind but not without logic. 

Alex Jennings who plays Alan Bennet and his second self is splendid in his douple role play. Naturaly and calm he declares this women, his story as something very natural, thought he shows how much this isn't the case. 

This idea is new in the movie as the book and play are telling the story more or lesson from his (Alan Bennets) point of view and kind of like he is sitting in a couch and telling stories for us to remember a women who declined and changed her name twice for not being noticed. Well, that lady will be remembered. Thought in the end you may say she is with us. 

So watch the movie and have your heart melt and your face with a smile in the end. 

P.S. you will also met two teachers from Hogwarts...

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