Actors: Maggie Smith, Clive Owen
Director: Robert Altman
Gosford Park is a charming film about whose characters I really didn't care at all. There's some pretty standard Altman stuff here - the fact that there are around 20 characters and they are breezily introduced. Gosford Park is ultimately about class warfare in Britain before the fall of the British Empire, which, again, is not a subject I particularly care for. The film does make an interesting study of upper-class society - in this film, it's the servants who know everything and gossip endlessly about their masters; their masters are so reserved and polite that they try not to divulge anything about their true feelings to anyone besides those who must know them most intimately.
Altman makes perfect use of the camera in his study of secrets - the camera tends to move all the time, as though we're there - he is fantastic at making us really seem like an observer to the action.
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