This Beautiful Fantastic

Name: This Beautiful Fantastic
Released: 2017-3-10
Cast: Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Wilkinson, Andrew Scott, Anna Chancellor, Jeremy Irvine

PG
1h 42m
2017

61%

Set against the backdrop of a beautiful London garden, this contemporary fairy tale centers on the unlikely friendship between a reclusive young woman who dreams of writing children’s books and a cranky widower. Facing eviction over her neglected garden, Bella (Jessica Brown Findlay) meets her grumpy, loveless, next-door neighbor (Tom Wilkinson), who happens to be an amazing horticulturalist.

Director:

Simon Aboud

Writer:

Simon Aboud

Cast:

Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Wilkinson, Andrew Scott, Anna Chancellor, Jeremy Irvine

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

61%

Reviews

TAKE ONE Magazine

Jim Ross

All the actors are talented, but there's nothing to bite on to. This empty lacking. This quirky cutesy. This sugary syrupy. This irksome irritating. THIS BEAUTIFUL FANTASTIC.

A slight, sweet tale about would-be novelist Bella whose life is governed by rules and checks until she tackles her overgrown garden. It doesn't even try to be subtle with the gardening and spreading your wings metaphors but its four misfits are engaging.

An ostensible fairy tale of the creative life in London that tries too hard to be eccentric, while also trying too hard to be grounded and realistic. This is one of those idiosyncrasies that you really can't have both ways.

Writer/director Simon Aboud's film turns out much as you would expect it to, saved by the warmth and expertise of a cast - particularly Andrew Scott as a cook who defects from Alfie to Bella - who deserve better material than this pleasing trifle.

March 16, 2018

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The New Paper (Singapore)

Charmaine Soh

A sweet story.

September 20, 2017

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