Richard Attenborough's
Shadowlands(PG).
Savoy Pictures, 1993.
Color, 133 minutes
Based on the life of
C. S. Lewis and, in part, his life with his wife Joy Gresham, a
Jewish Christian Communist from
America.
The beauty of this film is in the pain Lewis, played by Anthony Hopkins, feels in losing the love he had never let himself feel, let alone express. It is amazing to watch the confident Oxford professor go from teaching the principles of love and suffering as a theologian to learning the reality of suffering as a shaken and scared old man.