The divine secrets of the particular sisterhood here aren’t given much nuance – Hungarian director Lajos Koltai has distilled Susan Minot’s novel to a series of melodramatic plot points – but that somehow doesn’t spoil the performances. Essentially a death-bed flashback on the part of a woman (Vanessa Redgrave) recalling a tragic wedding weekend from her youth, this features strong turns by Claire Danes, Hugh Dancy and Meryl Streep, whose one scene with Redgrave captures every note of longing and regret that the rest of the movie should have hit.
