Miss Potter

This is, no doubt, a romanticised account but it is most charmingly told, with a touching performance from Renée Zellweger as the heroine. The tale cleverly alludes to many hot issues of the 20th and 21st centuries: the lot of females in a male-dominated world; the plight of the single woman; the divisions of class in society and the need to conserve the landscape. But supremely this is a story of the power of story, even quirky and childish stories about rabbits who wear coats and very stupid ducks.

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