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19 February 2006
North & South BBC version
12 of 12 found this helpful I am a sucker for romance and romantic movies and am always looking for a new film that will inspire me. I stumbled across this DVD "North & South" at a bookstore and I had no idea what to expect... Well, "North & South" has endeared itself to my heart, and is now my favorite period film of all time!
Elizabeth Gaskell's 19th century novel about an unlikely love between a middle-class young woman from England's cultivated south and industrialist in the north. Daniela Denby-Ashe plays Margaret Hale, forthright and strong-willed daughter of a former vicar (Tim Pigott-Smith) who relocates his family from a pastoral village outside London to unforgiving, largely illiterate Milton, a factory town where John Thornton (Richard Armitage) and his mother (Sinead Cusack), survivors of poverty, rule their cotton mill with an iron hand.
This is a fantastic, beautifully-filmed and well-done BBC series The cinematography is so excellent and compelling, and the scenes wonderfully acted!