Take Me With You
Nov 25th, 2008 by oldfogey
Alan Rickman is most famous as an actor - Severus Snape in the Harry Potter movies, the Sheriff of Nottingham in ‘Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves’, the mad villain in ‘Die Hard’, the ghost husband in ‘Truly, Madly, Deeply’. In 1997, in a departure from acting, he co-wrote and directed the film ‘The Winter Guest’. It’s a touching, if rather bleak tale, set in wintry Scotland, about a woman (Emma Thompson) coming to terms with the death of her husband and trying to re-establish her relationship with her difficult mother (Phyllida Law, her real life mother). But it’s not unremittingly bleak. The two local widows, whose hobby is attending as many funerals as they can, as if trying to stave off their own, are genuinely funny.
The soundtrack, by Michael Kamen, in noteworthy, in particular the final song ‘Take Me With You’ sung over the end titles. Here it is sung by Elisabeth Fraser.
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