The Lady in the Van

Taya 2022-03-26 09:01:11

I believe that I will one day be in the same position as Ms. Sheffield, a belief that deepens with each passing year in the post-adolescence years. I know too well that I am a very eccentric person, so I have been living in isolation when I am old, as the final character setting for myself, just like this lady of Sheffield who lives in a truck, it is the embodiment of the end of my life in my imagination. .
The film is adapted from a true story. On the parking lane of the writer Alan's house, for 15 years, there has lived such an old lady living in a truck...


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  • Nils 2022-03-22 09:02:38

    3.6 stars. I like the performance of the old lady, the film itself is not bad.

  • Josephine 2022-03-25 09:01:18

    caring is about shit.

The Lady in the Van quotes

  • Alan Bennett: [narrating] The chair goes up on a lift. And in this small ascension, when she slowly rises above the level of the garden wall, there is a vagabond nobility about her. A derelict Nobel Prize winner, she looks, her grimy face set in a kind of resigned satisfaction.

    Miss Shepherd: Could we do that again? I'd like another go.

    Ambulance Man: When you come back.

  • Alan Bennett: I bought you these.

    Miss Shepherd: Flowers? What do I want with flowers? They... They only die. I've got enough on my plate without flowers.