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Watch: Mothering Sunday 2021 123movies, Full Movie Online – A maid living in post-World War I England secretly plans to meet with the man she loves before he leaves to marry another woman..
Plot: On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild finds herself alone on Mother’s Day. Her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Niven, are out and she has the rare chance to spend quality time with her secret lover. Paul is the boy from the manor house nearby, Jane’s long-term love despite the fact that he’s engaged to be married to another woman, a childhood friend and daughter of his parents’ friends. But events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane’s life forever.
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Ratings:

	6.0/10 Votes: 2,661
	78% | RottenTomatoes
	66/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 41 Popularity: 14.969 | TMDB

Reviews:

A Society Comprehensively Bereaved
The title “Mothering Sunday” might suggest that this would be a good one to take your ol’ mum to see as ‘a nice treat’. Which indeed you might like to do, as long as you set the expectations first! For this is a beautifully crafted, if flawed, story of life after the First World War. A movie that has less focus on those killed in battle and more on those left behind.

Positives:
* This movie looks stunning (cinematography by Jamie Ramsay), from the opening close-up shots of Odessa Young, through bucolic bike-riding in England’s leafy lanes to the luscious love-making scenes. All perfectly staged and beautifully lit. You could take many of the stills from this movie and grace the walls of an art exhibition with them.

* Where has Odessa Young come from? The Sydney-born actress is just fabulous here, commanding a real presence for the camera. It’s a brave performance too with sex and extensive full-frontal nudity. This includes a naked wander through the old house that might feel exploitative if the writer or director had been a man. (The ladies also get full-frontal views of Josh O’Connor which adds balance to the film. This is, frankly, so often lacking in films of this type).

* The rest of the acting from the ensemble cast is also top-notch. Colin Firth is just squirm-inducingly awful (in a great way) as Mr Niven, always tiptoeing around the tension in a very English way with platitudes about the weather. Olivia Colman is also magnificent: when is she not? I saw one user review on here saying that she “dialled in her performance” which I couldn’t disagree with more. She’s a living portrait of grief and anger. “You’re so lucky”, she says to Jane at one point, “to be so comprehensively bereaved at birth”. The fact that she does virtually nothing with her face until a single dramatic explosion is the epitome of perfect acting, where ‘less is more’.

* I liked the way that the film properly reflected the social damage of the war. We’ve been here before, with episodes of “Downton Abbey” for example, but the fact that this is set so many years after the conflict but that it was still so invasive gave me room for much thought.

* Complementing a strong female team behind the camera is composer Morgan Kibby with an interesting and engaging score.

Negatives:
* The events shown have a wraparound story showing Jane’s later writing life, both in a mid-life relationship with philosopher Donald (Sope Dirisu) and her elderly life (where Jane is portrayed by Glenda Jackson). It is a genuine delight to see Ms Jackson on the screen again: astonishingly, according to IMDB, her last big-screen appearance was back in 1990! However, these structural elements of the story didn’t work for me. Although I might be accused of ‘not understanding what the writer was trying to do’ (incorrect, I do), there is a case here, at least in the movie version, for a ‘simple is good’ approach. I think the underlying story set in 1924 was gripping and engaging enough not to require the complexity introduced by these later scenes. I’d have preferred a simpler 90-minute film focused on that story. (I’ve not read Graham Swift’s book: perhaps this all works better as a novel?)
* Typecasting is a terrible thing, but Josh O’Connor has such a striking resemblance to Prince Charles that it’s sometimes difficult not to think “Ooh, I’ve just seen the future king’s bits”!

Summary Thoughts on “Mothering Sunday”: It’s the acting and the cinematography that sets this apart for me. Although it had its irritations, I found this to be a beautiful and engaging watch. The story is perhaps a tad predictable. But overall this is a nicely crafted and thought-provoking film that gets a thumbs up from me.

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Enjoyable despite the cliché characters
It is soon after the First World War and three middle-aged couples gather for lunch on Mothers’ Day to celebrate the engagement of Paul (Josh O’Connor), the only survivor of the couples’ five sons, the rest of whom were killed during the war. But Paul is late to the lunch, because he is having a last tryst with Jane (Odessa Young), a maid employed by one of the couples, the Nivens (Colin Firth and Olivia Coleman). Running parallel to that story is one set some years later, when Jane is a published author and living with fellow writer Donald (Sope Dirisu), who is gentle and wise in the way sole black characters in this sort of production often are. And running parallel to *that* is a story set many *decades* later, in which Jane has grown into Glenda Jackson and reminisces about her two lovers.

Stories revolving around romantic relationships between the British rich ‘upstairs’ and their subordinates ‘downstairs’ are ten a penny – although Jane has more common sense than the usual waif and there was not quite as much nudity in the likes of ‘Downton Abbey’ as there is here! Many of the characters are two-dimensional – Firth does his uncomfortable upper-class schtick yet again and Coleman also seems to be ‘phoning in her performance, at least until an emotional outburst makes the viewer realise there is, after all, some life to Mrs Niven. The constant back-and-forth between the various time periods could have been confusing but director Eva Husson manages to give each one a distinctive tone.

On the whole, an enjoyable film that manages to be comforting because of its predictability.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 44 min (104 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Eva Husson
Writer Alice Birch, Graham Swift
Actors Odessa Young, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth
Country United Kingdom, Germany
Awards 1 win
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix N/A
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1
Camera Arri Alexa Mini, Bausch & Lomb Super Baltar and Cooke S4 Lenses
Laboratory Molinare, London, UK (digital intermediate) (color and finish)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format Codex
Cinematographic Process ARRIRAW (3.4K) (source format), Digital Intermediate (4K) (master format)
Printed Film Format D-Cinema