This was a very beautiful movie! I liked the setting in the Cornish fishing village, and they had also managed to get the feeling of the times (1930:s) just right. And all the actors were just excellent! It was also very sad, with the old spinster's hopelessly impossible unrequited passion for the young man... Who has not nursed a secret passion, and saved little mementos of the loved one, at one time or another in our lives..? In fact, I blushed in front of the screen a couple of times, as the old woman's behaviour made me remember embarrassing things I have done myself...
Although I think the story would have been still more effective, if the woman had been a little younger. Maybe in her 40:s or 50:s instead of her 70:s. It would have been easier to relate to it then, and feel sorry for her... That is: I _did_ feel sorry for her now as well. It wrung my heart when the young man left with a beautiful woman of his own age - something that _had_ to happen before or later. But an age difference of about 50 years is simply indecent - insane.
Or, alternatively, if her love for him had not been sexual at all, but only long repressed denied motherly feelings - as she had never had any children either, as well as no husband... That would have been nicer, I think.
Although I think the story would have been still more effective, if the woman had been a little younger. Maybe in her 40:s or 50:s instead of her 70:s. It would have been easier to relate to it then, and feel sorry for her... That is: I _did_ feel sorry for her now as well. It wrung my heart when the young man left with a beautiful woman of his own age - something that _had_ to happen before or later. But an age difference of about 50 years is simply indecent - insane.
Or, alternatively, if her love for him had not been sexual at all, but only long repressed denied motherly feelings - as she had never had any children either, as well as no husband... That would have been nicer, I think.