The Lady in the Van Magazine"'s Elise Nakhnikian said the film is all about the "fastidious, somewhat timid, and reclusive playwright Alan Bennett", and stated the film's "annoying glibness is neatly summarized" by the line: "In life, going downhill is an uphill job". The Lady in the Van The Lady in the Van is a 2015 British comedy-drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner, and starring Maggie Smith and Alex Jennings, based on the novel of the same name created by Alan Bennett. It was written by Alan Bennett, and it tells the (mostly) true story of his interactions with Mary Shepherd, an elderly woman who
The Shameless Old Lady possible, and in doing so finds that she loves it. She blows her life savings, much to the disapproval of the young people around her. The Shameless Old Lady The Shameless Old Lady (Original title: La Vieille dame indigne) is a 1965 French film. Based on the short story "", written in 1939 by Bertolt Brecht, it was directed by René Allio and stars Sylvie and Victor Lanoux. Sylvie won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress for this role, one of her last and her only lead. Madame Berthe, a newly widowed 70-year-old miser, has lived