Bettina Rheims
2025
“You're invited.”
Nothing Like a Dame (2018)
May 2, 20181h 20mEN
6.8
57 votes
Overview
BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together for the first time as they reminisce over a long summer weekend in a house Joan once shared with Sir Laurence Olivier.
Director
Roger MichellWhere to Watch
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English
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BBCPurple Moo PicturesField Day ProductionsKew Media GroupTransmission Pictures
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User Reviews
CinemaSerf
7.0With something like 30 BAFTA, 15 Oscar and twenty odd Golden Globe nominations between them, this congregation of British Dames was always going to be a good opportunity to mix together these four lively characters with a plethora of archive and the odd sup of champagne. What we get is a mess. There's loads of cross-talking, plenty of witty asides, dead air time, hearing aid malfunctions, aching limbs and reminiscences by the pound. It's the very meandering, unstructured, nature of this chat that quite engagingly illustrates just how extensively varied the careers of these women has been since…
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