Daughters of the Late Colonel
In a merry adaptation of a century-old short story, two sisters seize the courage to live anew after their overbearing father’s death.
After their dreadful, controlling father finally dies, middle-aged sisters Constantia and Josephine are emboldened to repel the sleazy advances of clergyman Mr. Farolles. In cheeky pen scribbles and watercolour blots that could have been torn from a repressed lady’s journals, Elizabeth Hobbs retells Katherine Mansfield’s celebrated 1920 modernist short story with deadpan verve, granting her heroines an irreverence to fuel their awakening independence. A Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selection.
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