Bedknobs and Broomsticks
- cosy
- brisk
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster. The children's initial fears disappear when they find out she is in fact a trainee witch.
Our read · Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive disney · lansbury · sherman entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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