The Winter Guest

A young woman torn apart by her husband’s death begins to start life anew after an unexpected, and unwelcome, visit from her mother. Played by real-life mother and daughter Emma Thompson and Phyllida Law, the film provides an intimate look at the relationship between two women, as well as an accurate glimpse at life in Scotland. Gary Hollywood, Arlene Cockburn, Sheila Reid, Sandra Voe., British actor Alan Rickman makes his directorial debut with this thoughtful and gentle quartet of overlapping but not interrelated tales of the lives of four pairs of villagers in a small Scottish coastal town on the coldest day of the year.