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	The Winter Guest (1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		And they come unbidden and unannounced, like an uninvited guest that drops by and burrows into your very soul to ferret out the deepest hopes, dreams, needs and desires which-- consciously or subconsciously-- are a part of everyone who draws a breath upon the planet.
		The winter guest you can neither refuse nor turn away that is desolation of spirit; a visitor to whom we are introduced in `The Winter Guest,' directed by Alan Rickman.
		She successfully conveys that deepest yearning that so readily identifies the winter into which Frances has entered in her soul, and her scenes with Law (her real life mother) are a subtle expression of reality, and a joy to behold.
	us.imdb.com /Title?Winter+Guest,+The+(1997) (955 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: The Winter Guest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Winter in Scotland is as muted as a wake.
		``The Winter Guest'' follows four sets of characters through a day in a Scottish village, and its purpose is not to draw a lesson or tell a story, but to evoke a mood.
		``Winter Guest'' is the directing debut of Alan Rickman, an actor who makes intelligent British films (``Truly, Madly, Deeply,'' ``Sense and Sensibility'') and makes big money as a villain in American films (``Die Hard'').
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19980116/REVIEWS/801160307/1023 (749 words)

	Review: The Winter Guest Explorers Relationships with Elegance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Winter Guest is a beautiful, deeply moving film that teams Emma Thompson with her mother, veteran actress Phyllida Law, and marks an auspicious film directorial debut for actor Alan Rickman.
		You are prepared for high drama, but The Winter Guest goes against all manner of theatrics--and as it turns out, this is all for the good.
		In a highly affecting, wholly implicit way, The Winter Guest, which Rickman and Sharman Macdonald adapted from her play, reminds us that no matter how much of a cliche it may be, people really do need people, whether they admit it or not.
	www.alan-rickman.com /articles/relationships.html (774 words)

	Press: The Winter Guest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The fourth pair is a couple of boys, probably about 12, Tom and Sam, who also skip school and spend it down by the waterfront talking about life, longing for puberty and wondering why their parents do what they do.
		The skin tones and tans and browns in some of the indoor scenes are particularly impressive as when Frances takes a bath to put off going downstairs to meet her mother.
		The warm colors of her skin against the cold blue white of the bathtub was a remarkably beautiful and striking contrast, and the lyric pace and contrasting bleakness of the setting allow for savoring such nuances.
	www.anchoragepress.com /archives/documentb3cd.html (413 words)

	WAHM.com - Guest Article: Winter Exercise Tips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It’s just as important to stay hydrated when exercising in Winter as it is in Summer, even though you might not feel as thirsty.
		By staying fit during Winter you’ll be able to avoid gaining weight, have a head start on swimsuit season, and avoid losing strength and stamina caused from inactivity.
		Just as tulips need Winter nourishment from the Earth to strongly bloom in Spring, humans need to continue to nourish their bodies during Winter so they too can bloom come Spring.
	www.wahm.com /articles/winter-exercise-tips.html (653 words)

	Alan Rickman's The Winter Guest
		Rickman co-wrote The Winter Guest with Sharman McDonald, and directed but does not appear as an actor in this film.
		Alan's first film as a director (it was a play first in Almeida's Theatre in London in 1995).
		Seagulls flying in a white winter sky, above a frozen sea, you follow them to a little Scottish village on one frosty winter day.....
	www.rickmanistareview.com /twg.html (643 words)

	THE WINTER GUEST movie review with photos
		Moving in and out of this white-on-white landscape are four sets of people -- an elderly mother and her grown daughter, two teen-agers discovering romance, two school boys looking for trouble, and two old ladies in search of the perfect funeral.
		The boys are young enough to pay little attention to the winter guest.
		To be sure, The Winter Guest is no Bergman film -- it offers nothing like the emotional wallop that accompanied most films by the great Swedish director.
	www.rochestergoesout.com /mov/w/winter.html (527 words)

	The Winter Guest - Video(VHS)
		The winter guest is not the teenage girl visiting a boy whose mother is out, nor the chirping mother intruding on her widowed daughter.
		It is quickening under the surface, as the warming water breaks winter's grip.
		The discovery of new horizons in the experience of life is key to The Winter Guest.
	www.wensstyle.com /product/0780621638.html (1411 words)

	Film Review, The Winter Guest
		The Winter Guest, based on a play by Sharman Macdonald (Rickman and Macdonald co-wrote the screenplay), is set in a ruggedly beautiful Scottish seaside town where four intersecting duos take a break from their routines and spend the coldest day of the year thawing their frozen emotions.
		During the same day, Frances' teenage son begins a relationship with a willful girl who's had her eye on him; two boys on the brink of adolescence skip school and discuss their futures with trepidation, and a pair of old women attend a funeral which is transformed from a social event to a memento mori.
		Extremely stagy in its dialogue (full of the types of revelatory speeches that don't translate well on-screen), The Winter Guest is paradoxically very cinematic and extremely connected to the landscape.
	www.metrotimes.com /movies/filmarchive/18/16/18_16winter.html (359 words)

	Swarming Moth is Unwelcome Winter Guest - VeggieBoards
		The short-lived annoyance the moths cause is nothing compared with the devastation they wreak as ravenous caterpillars in the spring when they attack maple and apple trees, as well as blueberry and rose bushes, specialists say.
		When winter moths began to proliferate in Nova Scotia and the Pacific Northwest, scientists there fought back by introducing a known predator, the tachinid fly, to the area.
		The winter moth's mating season should end within a week, when the adult insects lay their eggs and die.
	www.veggieboards.com /boards/showthread.php?t=13547 (866 words)

	Fine Line Features \| The Winter Guest: About the Cast
		The Winter Guest is set in a seaside town in Scotland on the coldest day in living memory, a day so cold even the sea has frozen solid.
		As their story unfolds against a backdrop of frigid, seemingly implacable nature, The Winter Guest reveals the subtle, life-altering changes that occur just beneath the surface of human lives.
		The Winter Guest is being distributed by Fine Line Features in the U.S. and Capitol Films internationally.
	www.finelinefeatures.com /winterguest/about.html (475 words)

	The Winter Guest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		For all that it can slide from the precise to the precious, Alan Rickman's The Winter Guest is an auspicious directorial debut.
		Having great actors on hand and having a great actor's intuition in directing them is a big factor, as is the bleakly stunning setting -- a desolate Scottish coastal town on winter's day so cold the sea has frozen (The Winter Guest favors the pathetic fallacy).
		Although at times portentous, The Winter Guest always shudders back to life with hearty, sometimes caustic humor or coolly observed pathos, and Thompson and Law have the mother/daughter thing down so well it's almost annoying.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/movies/97/09/04/BFF_trailers/THE_WINTER_GUEST.html (231 words)

	The Winter Guest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Directed by Alan Rickman, The Winter's Guest is unsurprisingly an actor's exercise.
		The major problem with The Winter Guest is its air of ponderous symbolism.
		The Winter Guest makes you want to think; The Sweet Hereafter makes you want to feel -- and that's why The Sweet Hereafter is a haunting experience and The Winter Guest only so much intellectual noodling.
	www.panix.com /~crodell/97film/winterguest.html (435 words)

	Winter Bregenzerwald Tiscover family Region cheese adventures Winter Bregenzerwald guest card hi
		The ski areas surrounded by stunning nature is ideal for all lovers of winter sports and nature aficionados who enjoy a harmonic blend of activity and relaxation, who search for state-of-the-art ski areas, heartfelt hospitality and attractive offers at reasonable rates.
		And as he and his family like to spend their winter holidays in the Bregenzweald region, Punte combines this year´s visit with a snow sculpture festival taking place from Jan 22 - 28, 2005 organized in collaboration with the Schoppernau tourist board.
		In addition, snow sculpturing workshops as well as a contest for guests and locals will be at offer.
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	The Winter Guest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Based on the play by Sharman Macdonald, who co-wrote the script, Guest is dense in dialogue (blurred at times by the thick accents of some of the cast) and almost devoid of action, qualities Rickman for the most part turns into virtues.
		Intercut is the progress of a tiny dark figure across a snowfield -- her mother, Elspeth (Thompson's real-life mother, Phyllida Law; the two have the mother/daughter thing down so well that at times it's downright annoying), the ostensible, unexpected guest of the title.
		Reaching the village, she slips and falls, and the camera sails off from her and out to sea, tracking over the ice and toward the limitless mist beyond: Frances's dream, it seems, one from which she starts to wakefulness.
	www.worcesterphoenix.com /archive/movies/98/01/16/THE_WINTER_GUEST.html (681 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Winter Guest [1998]: Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Set during the brief hours of light one day in February when the sea has frozen, The Winter Guest is about how four pairs of people at different stages of life attempt to fill the emptiness in their hearts.
		The film carries no real 'plot' in the Hollywood sense of the word, in much the same way as real life doesn't and the result is an extraordinarily intimate film where it is impossible not to be drawn into and relate to the four pairs of characters described.
		The Winter Guest has a simplicity and honesty which stays with you long after you have finished watching and which is genuinely nourishing, unlike the gratuitous, quick-fix formula to which most films nowadays are manufactured.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004CW8J (767 words)

	THE WINTER GUEST
		Drama: Four sets of people explore their friendships and life in general on a cold winter day in a coastal Scottish town.
		Although we never definitely know who (or what) the "winter guest" is, symbolically it's probably the cold winter day that plot-wise is the only common bond amongst the characters.
		Taking turns weaving their stories, their setting on a cold winter's day would be easy to create theatrically.
	www.screenit.com /movies/1998/the_winter_guest.html (1821 words)

	Review: The Winter Guest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Winter Guest isn't about resolving plot threads and advancing a story line; it's about exploring relationships and examining life in all of its stages.
		The Winter Guest does not tell a traditional tale, nor does it ascribe to a conventional narrative structure — there is no real beginning or end.
		If you appreciate character studies, The Winter Guest is a solid effort with enough power to stay with you after you have left the theater.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/w/winter_guest.html (853 words)

	The Winter Guest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Literally the frosty unexpected guest who arrives at the home of the movie's main character Frances, is her mother Elspeth.
		Now, perhaps it is because my daughter is a photographer like Frances, or maybe because I have traversed the crossing of parenting one's parent, that this film speaks to me. However this is not just another mother/daughter flick.
		First we are tucked securely yet ominously, in the insular, coastline of Scotland on the coldest day of winter, when the sea itself is frozen.
	www.freudian-flicks.com /winter_guest.htm (417 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > Winter Guest
		Written and directed by Alan Rickman, "The Winter Guest" is a small, subtle and often quite lovely 1997 feature about a series of characters living in a small, cold little Scotish town.
		There really isn't much of a narrative to be found, as the picture is quite satisfied to simply stand back and observe the events of a variety of characters trying to deal with different events in their lives, while also trying to keep from freezing.
		Final Thoughts: "Winter Guest" is a small, superbly acted character study.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=17497 (555 words)

	'The Winter Guest': Unabashedly Mushy
		Thompson are Elspeth and Frances, a mother and her recently widowed daughter who spend a frigid winter day trudging through the bleakly beautiful landscape around a Scottish seaside town.
		A fussy, sentimental exercise in theatrical counterpoint, "The Winter Guest" interweaves Elspeth's and Frances' dialogues with simultaneous little dramas in the lives of three other pairs of villagers.
		"The Winter Guest" is rated R (under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian).
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/122397winter-film-review.html (722 words)

	MMI Movie Review: The Winter Guest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The cold is more than an element in the film, it's a character in its own right, spurring action and mirroring the cold in Frances' heart left by the death of her husband.
		First-time film director Alan Rickman is skillful, showing the utter stillness of hopeless grief and examining the minutiae and with a fine eye for detail.
		"The Winter Guest" is quick to remind us that life is full of pain.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/winter-guest.html (397 words)

	Amazon.com: The Winter Guest (1997) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The setting for "The Winter Guest" (based on the stage play) is a small fishing village in Scotland where the sea is frozen as far as the eye can see.
		At one point during the film her son tells a friend their house is haunted and his dead father has imprisoned his mother.
		One cold winter day, Frances' mother Elspeth (Phyllida Law--Emma's real mother) comes calling -- she is the 'winter guest.' She encourages Frances to start living again.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0780621638?v=glance (2282 words)

	The Winter Guest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A harsh and beautiful Scottish winter provides the backdrop for Thompson and Law's (Thompson's real-life mother) brilliant performances as the two women who spend a day bickering and talking as they walk through a seaside village.
		The Winter Guest - New Line; rental pricing Feature; R Director: Alan Rickman Cast: Emma Thompson and Phillida Law...
		Hotels aim to compete with cruises; properties lure guests with winter deals and value-added features.
	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0300463.html (378 words)

	movieThemes: Alan Rickman - Winter Guest
		There he spent hours listening to co-star Lyndsay Duncan talk about the onset of Alzheimer's in her aging mother.
		He put Lyndsay in touch with the playwright, Sharman Macdonald who wrote the script for the play, The Winter Guest.
		With little assistance by Rickman, they play was brought to the big screen.
	www.cybamuse.com /movieThemes/actors/arickman/winter_guest.htm (532 words)

	The Winter Guest . Austin Chronicle . 03-23-98
		The Winter Guest extends that to the pistol below a young man's waist, and to cameras, too.
		Early on, it becomes all too clear that Thompson's Frances, a photographer who has not lifted her lens since her husband's death, will click the shutter before the credits roll, just as it's clear that Alex will snap Nita's picture, so to speak.
		These telegraphed climaxes rob the story of its drama as surely as winter steals the leaves from the trees, leaving us a film that's little more than a few chilly scenes of winter.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/austin/w/winterguestthe1.html (249 words)

	channel4.com/film - The Winter Guest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Adapted from Sharman Macdonald's stage play by both the author and Rickman, The Winter Guest is the tale of four couples forced to weather a winter so severe, even the sea has frozen over.
		Elspeth (Law) and Frances (Thompson) are mother and daughter, the former a recent arrival, the latter still to come to terms with the death of her husband.
		The Winter Guest isn't a bundle of laughs.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=110301 (333 words)

	The Winter Guest -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Winter Guest -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The Winter Guest (1997) was British actor (additional info and facts about Alan Rickman) Alan Rickman's debut as a director, and stars (additional info and facts about Emma Thompson) Emma Thompson and (additional info and facts about Phyllida Law) Phyllida Law.
		The plot of the story is a bit unclear, but it has been suggested that it is supposed to show people at different stages in life: two young boys, two teenagers, a mother, a grandmother, and two elderly women.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_winter_guest.htm (127 words)

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