This Beautiful Fantastic (2017)

Absolutely lovely! Chocolat meets Notting Hill!! Captivated from the start! Skipping through channels and came to abrupt halt with this! A 5 min coffee break ended up getting lost in Bella's garden! Thought provoking at time, sentimental and heart warming with that ever so charming British humor...or is it sarcasm! This film exposes the inner magic and creative charm we have seem to have lost in society today!

with all the negative fake news and all the mean selfish people abounding in life, this movie was a much needed respite from it all. Wow, so heart-tugging and captivating on so many levels. I'm not a Gardner, but I'm a human being with a heart, so this was not only a relief, but a true winner of a movie. I open my heart and door to people like this in real life. These are the type of characters that truly enrich us.

A Slovenian edited product it features three familiar names of the British acting world. Tom Wilkinson and Anna Chancellor are quite familiar to Americans. Jessica Brown Findley is familiar as brilliant in her so far one hit wonder- the first three seasons of Downton Abbey. The brilliant premise of ordinary people not necessarily fitting into a local society anxious to do so is enticing and well photographed and edited. Not necessarily for the crowd seeking funny comedy or themed social trends which is why I don't give it a perfect 10. It is a deeply thought out and wonderfully edited tale of character analysis of what most of us would like to do in a small town or local community though the fictitious characters are created as having more problems than perhaps do most of us on our parallel real life quest.

This film tells the story of a young woman who works in a library. She keeps her rental property nice, but it's unable to keep the garden beautiful. One day, the landlord gives her one month to make the garden beautiful and fantastic, otherwise she will be evicted."This Beautiful Fantastic" has a slow pace, and takes time to develop the story. To be honest, the obsessive character trait of the leading woman isn't explored enough, as the trait is shown in the beginning but does not appear anymore after the initial moments. The old neighbour speaks in an old fashioned way, with complicated sentences but impolite as can be. No one speaks like that nowadays. Honestly, the story is less than engaging. I thought there was going to be something magical in the garden, but I waited in vain. The only thing I really enjoyed was the chief librarian who obsessively enforced library rules.