Movie Review: Housewife, 49

Victoria Wood drops the comedy for a serious role in Housewife, 49 with excellent results
In 1937, journalist Charles Madge and filmmaker Humphrey Jennings were joined by anthropologist Tom Harrisson to form a group called Mass Observation. The group placed an advertisement in newspapers all over Britain asking for people from all walks of life to write down their thoughts and lives in a diary. The diaries would be compiled and the…

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