Miss Potter

I probably knew this wasn't my sort of film. I also had the problem that I'd recently heard on the radio a serialisation of a biography of Beatrix Potter.

It is an extremely sentimentalised view of the early life of the children's book author. (Well in fact only a few years of her life, studying the courtship of Miss Potter by her publisher - Renne Zellwegger and Ewan MacGregor).

In real life Beatrix understood only too well the brutality of nature (Peter Rabbit's father ended up in a pie after all), and she and her brother boiled dead pets to examine the skeletons. This was underplayed in the film, as was Miss Potter's feminism and triumph over the social attitudes to the role of women in late Victorian England.

A useful advert for the Lake District Tourism Authority though. My rating? 5/10