One love for another non-couple Robert Bolt’s film, “Lady Carolina Lamb”, shot according to his own script.
A film about crazy love, / love affair /, Lord Byron and exalted socialite, / writer / in the entourage, realities, / scenery / high society of English society, XVIII century.
Robert Bolt is an English playwright, director, actor and screenwriter. During the Second World War he served in aviation, after graduating from the University of Manchester, / studied as a historian /, for some time he was engaged in teaching. As the director made one film, “Lady Carolina Lamb”, more engaged in theater.
It is difficult to say how much the drama proposed to us corresponds to history, because the affairs of days long ago are blurred by any measure by the fog of time. And the author not only displayed his vision of events, but also the human factor played a significant role, /for the main actor is the wife of the director, and without a doubt this project was sharpened for her. / However, in film production, such actions are practiced often, / and not only in cinema /.
As for this particular case, I can not say that Sarah Miles impressed me with her performance, but I note that there are actresses and worse.
First, as usual, a few words about personalities.
Lady Caroline Lamb, a British aristocrat, writer, I think there is no need to list the titles, the wife of Sir William Lamb, at that time, a liberal politician, member of the House of Commons of Great Britain, Prime Minister, I will also note that Lady Caroline was a very exalted person, (in secular society it is usually fashionable), had a love affair, (very short) with Lord Byron, with whom she was even a distant relative, died at the age of 42. Her books did not stand the test of time, and so it happens.
Let's get to the story.
The year 1812, (somewhere there is a war in Russia), and on the foggy Albion calm. Unrecognized poet George Byron (Richard Chamberlain) works part-time street fighting, and a young aristocrat Carolina Lamb (Sarah Miles) languishes with idleness. Interested in the young man, talking to him, Carolina invites him to dinner. It seems that this joint pastime should have put all the points on i. She has a rich husband, a secure future, ambition, and ambition. What can they have in common?, maybe literature?, / in the film about it not a word, only love. Carolyn's rabid, crazy love and total, almost total, indifference in response. What about the husband? Caroline's husband, William Lamb, / John Finch / famous politician, / his name is even named city / who devoted himself entirely to his career, / we see that for him work is literally the meaning of life /, ready to sacrifice everything for his wife. And donate, and to no avail.
In this story, there is also Caroline’s mother-in-law, Lady Melbourne, (Margaret Leighton), at one time also not of angelic behavior, but now a secular matron, she also has her own not unselfish interest, and she will still say her weighty word in this story.
This is the layout, the dislocation on the chessboard of history. Who will win this time, mind or passion?
Caroline plunges into the abyss of passion, realizing that she is one of them. From the fans.
It scratches a little bit that Byron is not shown in the best light. But you can treat his image as a collective image. The Creator. A man not of this world. That he has earthly love when earthly glory awaits him. He has one foot in other worlds, he knows more than others, he is on the way to the knowledge of the Truth. Life on earth is not as important as life on earth.
Perhaps we will never know what was going on in the soul of the great poet, we can only speculate on the basis of his poetic heritage, and we will never know what was going on in the souls of his admirers. But, if you really want to, know that time is passing, and people remain almost the same as before, / the antourism of epochs is changing, but not the human soul /. Actually, any human feelings can be recognized by themselves, you only need to carefully observe, and it is desirable to live to the fullest.
We all had love, and after love, there was grief and joy, and the pain of the soul, and the longing of unrealizable. And there were times when we lived, (wanted to live) by prompting, (dictation) hearts, and there were times when we had to live by the prompting of reason. It's life. In other words, there was youth, and after maturity, there was happiness, and there will come an understanding of the causes of unhappiness.
In talking about love, how much can you talk about it, right?, I missed another character, not a minor one, Caroline’s husband, William. Everyone has their own life, their own difficulties, their own war, their own defeats, their own dignity and their own honor. Exactly honor. Because it is not always easy to get out of a delicate life situation with honor, especially from the dead end of life, you need to be not only a gentleman, a knight, someone else, you also need to be a person.
Just a good, decent person.