As compensation, however, she strikes up a friendship with German handyman Joseph Schmidt, and he’s played by Hungarian actor Géza Röhrig (from Son Of Saul) with such gooey niceness and nobleness that you just know they’re going to wind up in bed together (and no spoilers necessary because it’s in the trailer!). Dennis (overacting Miranda Otto) and hit some nightspots, while Norma travels to the orphanage she thinks she grew up in and gets harshly treated by the stereotyped nuns. Flirty Louise doesn’t think she needs a chaperone and laughs snootily at Norma’s suggestion that “men don’t like candy that’s been unwrapped”, and yet these two very different women find common ground and grow as close as the often-leaden script will allow. Impressed, Norma hears that Louise is soon to start studying at a dance school in big, bad New York City and impulsively offers to be the girl’s chaperone, partially to annoy her chilly hubby and partially to do some research into her own shadowy past.
They visit the home of society sort Myra Brooks (Adelaide’s own Victoria Hill, also a producer) and watch her daughter Louise (Haley Lu Richardson, also in Five Feet Apart) perform a rather clunky ‘modern’ dance routine. In Wichita we meet well-to-do couple Norma ( Downton’s Elizabeth McGovern) and Alan Carlisle (Campbell Scott) and sense immediately that they’re not happy, as McGovern quips a lot while Scott does his emotional paralysis routine.
#THE CHAPERONE PBS REVIEW MOVIE#
Drawn from real events in the young life of once-scandalous cult movie star (Mary) Louise Brooks (1906 – 1985), it was obviously a hurried production, with clumsy direction from Michael Engler (a Downton alumni) and a script by Julian Fellowes (also of the series and forthcoming movie) full of phony-sounding dialogue that no one would have said back in the 1920s.
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