Gardening and the movies
By Behind The Scenes TV on Dec 28, 2007 in Commentary
So there I was muttering, “Fraud, fraud,” while watching Enchanted April.
It’s a charming movie that sets very few viewers to grumbling. Oppressed women leave cold, rainy 1920s England and proceed to find happiness, peace, and sunshine in a rented castle on the Italian coast.
My complaint wasn’t about the story line but about the fact that the movie’s Portofino, Italy, hillside garden was bursting with flowers that wouldn’t be blooming simultaneously. No garden in the real world would look like that—the blooms of high summer (roses, sunflowers, geraniums) right next to the flowers of April (daffodils, tulips, camellias). It’s garden fraud.
(Source: Slate)
