Spectacular creation grande dame of cinema, twice Oscar winner Maggie Smith (Marigold Hotel, Gosford Park, Downton Abbey), who plays the title lady in the van.

Based on real events moving story of friendship between two people, which forever changed their lives. The appearance of the eccentric, self-confident old lady in one of the chic areas of London concern for its inhabitants. Miss Shepherd lives because in the van, which, he claims, parked "temporarily" in the driveway of the house of Alan Bennett. He will spend the next 15 years.

The film was made in the original spaces they inhabited Shepherd and Bennett. And directed by one of the most recognized artists of European cinema, winner of BAFTA and theater Tony Award, Nicholas Hytner (The Madness of King George, The History Boys). For the role of Miss Shepherd Maggie Smith he was honored with a nomination for a Golden Globe and British BAFTA Film Award.

Accustomed us to the creation of dignified ladies, but in rags, as the sassy, ​​somewhat gruff homeless Mary Shepherd comedy lady in the van Maggie Smith is even grander. Dagmara Romanowska, Film.onet.pl

text: Cinema Under the Rams