The film is a coming-of-age story for Louise with a significant twist, and is sumptuously mounted. The character of Louise is real, but the character of Norma is fictional in Moriarty’s novel. They don’t like each other initially, but their journey profoundly affects them both.
By contrast, Norma is controlled, reticent and self-effacing, but as needy as Louise in a different way.īoth Haley and Norma came from the tight social-milieu of Wichita, Kansas. Louise is wild in spirit with a yen for the taste of alcohol and men she likes to flirt with, young and old. A suitable person is selected, and Louise is chaperoned on her journey by a local society matron, Norma Carlisle (Elizabeth McGovern), who is trusted for being a stern, disciplinarian. Louise’s mother (Victoria Hill) insists that her daughter can’t go to New York unless she is chaperoned. She wants to be a dancer, and before she turned to acting and then to writing, she danced to wide acclaim. In the film, a free-spirited, restless young dancer, Louise Brooks (Haley Lu Richardson), is given the opportunity to study with a leading modern dance troupe, and seeks fame in New York City. Set in 1922, the film focuses on stories of two women’s lives in the early 20th. It tells the story of a teenager called Louise Brooks, who became the toast of silent movies, and who travelled to NewYork as a young girl to study dance in the company of a chaperone.
This Australian-British-American film is based on a screenplay by Julian Fellows that is in turn based on a best selling novel of the same name by Laura Moriarty written in 2012. Rated PG (Mild themes and infrequent coarse language), 108 min. Starring: Haley Lu Richardson, Elizabeth McGovern, Victoria Hill, Blythe Danner, Campbell Scott, and Geza Rohrig.
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