![]() ![]() You observe this pinched world and these hatchet faces through the unwavering eyes of the young girl. This debut of an all-female production team (producer Phillippa Giles, director Beeban Kidron, and writer Jeanette Winterson, who adapted the film from her autobiographical novel) is impressive in capturing the novelist’s first-person viewpoint, which is difficult to do on film. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change. ![]() If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with mermaids at the bottom of the sea. What rewards the viewer hearty enough to stick through the overlong three-hour production (including some 10 commercial breaks) are the sense of place, the weathered faces of the Christian zealots (a gaggle of aging women mostly), and the luminous protagonist with the orange hair and wondrous eyes (Emily Aston as the child and Charlotte Coleman as the adolescent). Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 78 likes Like It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Quotes Showing 31-60 of 150 The curious are always in some danger. A beguiling BBC drama, “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit” (airing twice tonight, at 6 and 10, on Arts & Entertainment), unfolds like a cinematic, first-person novel, in this case the odyssey of a girl growing up in a fanatical evangelical environment in northern England. Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. ![]()
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