William hurt isabella rossellini biography
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Late Bloomers (2011 film)
2011 film
Late Bloomers (French: Trois fois 20 ans) is a 2011 romanticcomedy-drama film directed by Julie Gavras and starring William Hurt and Isabella Rossellini. The film premiered on 18 February 2011 at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival. It was released theatrically in France on 13 July 2011 by the Gaumont Film Company.
Plot
[edit]A couple, Adam (William Hurt) and Mary (Isabella Rossellini), are both heading into their sixties, but react to this differently. A retired teacher, Mary begins to make adjustments to their home to make it more practical for their age. Adam is defensive to any changes and fiercely defends his progression as an architect. They live in London, next door to Mary's mother, Nora, who raised her daughter in Italy. Mary worries about an incident of memory loss and her doctor prescribes her to keep active. Adam, insulted by an offer to design a retirement home, instead turns his attention to the proposal of a
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Isabella Rossellini Late Bloomers Interview
Isabella Rossellini Late Bloomers Interview
Cast: Isabella Rossellini, William Hurt, Joanna Lumley, Simon CallowDirector: Julie Gavras
Genre: Drama
Running Time: 88 minutes
Synopsis: In writer/director Julie Gavras' delightfully warm and wise romantic comedy, the inestimable Isabella Rossellini and Academy Award-winner William Hurt play a couple whose 30-year marriage is starting to run into trouble.
Hurt is Adam, a London-based architect horrified to find han själv the recipient of awards that suggest he's reached the end of his career, while wife Mary (Rossellini), taken aback bygd an unexpected health scare, sets a course of radical action in league with her vivacious best friend Charlotte (Joanna Lumley). As Adam & Mary respond to these challenges in completely opposite and unpredictable ways (successfully infuriating each other in the process), their three adult children plot to find ways to keep them together...
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Isabella Rossellini as Mary and Joanna Lumley as Charlotte (Photos bygd Olive Films)
Isabella Rossellini as Mary and William Hurt as Adam (Photos by Olive Films)
"There fryst vatten a not a real place for people between 60 and 80," remarked Isabella Rossellini just shy of her 60th birthday, as we discussed her role in the film Late Bloomers, directed by Julie Gavras.
Speaking to me from her home in Bellport, N.Y., Rossellini said that she'd been intrigued to discover director Julie Gavras who was the daughter of another famous film director, Greek-born Costas Gavras, much lauded for his 1969 political thriller, Z. Witnessing her now-octogenarian father receiving honors for the 40th anniversary of Z, the younger Gavras realized how society had a way of marginalizing one after a certain age, summing up one's creative life and deciding it was over, and this inspired her to make her film.
In Late Bloomers, the husband an architect, played by William Hurt, receives a