How to Make an American Quilt

How to Make an American Quilt

Director: Jocelyn Moorehouse

Starring: Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Bustin, Jean Simmons.

Production: 1995 / USA

Broadcast length: 110 minutes

Age Grade: 15

 

summary:

Finn Dodd is a college student who has just received a proposal from her boyfriend. Finn comes to the house where his grandmother Hai and his aunt grandmother Gladizo live together to write a paper related to handicrafts. When Finn was a child, after her parents divorced, she became suspicious of calming and eternal love, and because of this perspective, she hesitated to marry Sam. At the grandmother's house, the neighboring women, whom Finn saw and grew up as a child, are actively holding a quilt meeting. While busy making quilts for Finn's wedding gift, the old women begin to reflect on their true love and life one by one. As a young man, a brilliant diver and free spirit, Sophia marries her conservative and oppressive mother. However, childbirth and marriage never became her refuge, and Sophia gradually sees herself resembling her mother, whom she hated so much. M lives with her husband, Dean, a playboy painter and has a hard time with her. He decided to divorce and went back to his family, but eventually his parents pushed his back and lived with Dean again. M, who thinks that the same quilt member Constance is having an affair with Dean, has a conflict with her. Finn's grandmother, Hai, suffers from seeing her dying husband, then spends the night with her older sister Gladizo's husband without thinking. When Gladizo learns this, he trembles with a sense of betrayal, and his hatred for his younger brother continues even after a long time. Anna, who leads the quilt meeting, meets her maid at the house where she was a maid and gives birth to her daughter Mariana. Growing up with a free spirit, Mariana grows up and goes to Paris, where she spends the night with a man. Later, knowing that he is a married man, he broke up without even knowing his name, but for Mariana, he is a soul mate that he will never forget. The members of the quilt group finally complete the quilt by embroidering various forms of love and life one by one. And Finn, who watched this process by her side, also gains a change in her values ​​about love and grows a little further and takes a step forward.

 

subject:

Life and love are like completing a piece of quilt. There are no specific standards or patterns. If you just sew one stitch, the most precious memories take shape on the fabric. Likewise with love and life, there is no set pattern or model answer. Even if it's crooked and distorted, it's precious because he took it step by step with all his heart. Like a quilt made by a grandmother and a mother and handed down to a daughter, the secrets and stories that women who have already entered the twilight period of life want to pass on to the next generation become a piece of work.

 

Watching Point:

This is a film based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Whitney Otto. Maya Angelo (as Anna), Anne Bancroft (as Gladizo), Ellen Bustin (as High), Samantha Mathis (as young Sophia), Kate Nelligan (as Constance), and Jean Simmons ( M), Winona Ryder (Fin Dodd), etc. It is a work where you can meet welcome faces such as Jean Simmons, Kate Capshaw, and Anne Bancroft, and the delicate sensibility of female directors is well revealed. The stories of the characters and the fun of appreciating the quilts intact are also not to be missed.

 

director:

Jocelyn Moorehouse is an Australian screenwriter and director. Born on September 4, 1960 in Victoria, Australia. In 1991, he directed [American Quilt (1995)] and [1000 Acres (1997)], starting with [Proof], which he even wrote himself, and directed her husband P.J. He also worked as a producer of <Muriel's Wedding (1994)> and <Unconditional Love> directed by Hogan. His recent works include <The Dressmaker> (2016).