Odour of Chrysanthemums (film)
Odour of Chrysanthemums is a short film directed by Mark Partridge and based on the short story by DH Lawrence
Plot
The Film starts with Elizebeth Bates, a wife to a miner, calling her son in from the "wet brooke". She is then visited by her father, and they discuss his upcoming remarriage.
As the film progresses, and the daughter (Annie) returns home from school, Elizebeth becomes progressively worried of her husbands failure to return home. However she tells herself to dismiss her worries, as he is most likely at the Prince of Wales Public House getting drunk with his friends.
The children then go to bed, and the Grandma enters, ranting on about how terrible it is that the husband is missing.
Eventually the husband is brought in on a stretcher, apparently having been smothered during his work at the mines.
Cast
- Elizebeth Bates - Geraldine O'Rawe
- Grandma Bates - Geraldine James
- John Bates - Jake McCollough
- Director - Mark Partridge
- Producer - Andrea Wallace Grant
Awards
The Film won First Prize in the short film catagory of the Milan film festival.