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Keep The Aspidistra Flying
Keep The Aspidistra Flying
Stars: Richard E. Grant, Helena Bonham-CarterDirector: Robert Bierman
Summary: Comstock and Rosemary are a typical 1930s couple with modern ideas. He decides to leave his middle class job to become a poet while she works hard to keep her career and their unusual relationship on track. Comstock, however, is desperate to escape that symbol of middle class respectability - the Aspidistra. The story is based on a novel by George Orwell.
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In George Orwell's semi-autobiographical novel, to "keep the aspidistra flying" meant something on a social as well as a personal scale. This film adaptation pares material down into a more concise chapter in the struggle for artistry as experienced by Gordon Comstock (Richard E Grant). At New Albion Publicity he's the best copywriter they've ever had, and long-suffering girlfriend Rosemary (Helena Bonham Carter) knows it. Unfortunately, Gordon quits to concentrate on writing poetry. Post-WWI London is reluctant to accommodate him however, and not even the aspidistra plant at his lodgings will give him an answer despite screaming obscenities at it. Veering between successes and failures, this is the story of coming to terms with a society that no longer has a place for free-ranging artists. Grant is the perfect victim of these circumstances, and even when you're berating his selfishness, you can't help but sympathise. The production design of the film is superb with wonderful use made of the few remaining suitable period locations in London. Populating the scenery are some wonderful cameos, such as Bill Wallis as the contentedly illiterate bookstore owner Mr Cheeseman, and Liz Smith as slightly lecherous landlady Mrs Meakin. --Paul Tonks
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