The always wonderful Maggie Smith shines here as still another eccentric. Ms. Smith seemed to make a career of portraying eccentric characters and in "Travels With My Aunt," she falls right into appropriate form.
Meeting her alleged nephew at her sister's funeral, she immediately goes on a madcap adventure with him to secure funds so she can pay the ransom for her hostage-held lover.
We immediately know that the woman he called mother is not his and can guess automatically who his real parents are.
Smith opens a new life for her nephew while we see the rather poor choices she made throughout her life in the men she loved.
With that Maggie Smith strut across the screen, she depicted a memorable character but the film suffers because it becomes silly at times.
The up-in-the-air ending is most appropriate since we really don't know how life shall turn out for us.
Meeting her alleged nephew at her sister's funeral, she immediately goes on a madcap adventure with him to secure funds so she can pay the ransom for her hostage-held lover.
We immediately know that the woman he called mother is not his and can guess automatically who his real parents are.
Smith opens a new life for her nephew while we see the rather poor choices she made throughout her life in the men she loved.
With that Maggie Smith strut across the screen, she depicted a memorable character but the film suffers because it becomes silly at times.
The up-in-the-air ending is most appropriate since we really don't know how life shall turn out for us.