Nice amusing film

Rating: 7/10 (10 February 2014)

This story of the discords between Pamela L. Travers the author of novel "Mary Poppins" and Walt Disney about the adaptation of it to the cinema is shown in a vivid succession of sequences going to and fro between Austrália in 1906 and London / Los Angeles in 1961 in constant flashbacks to show us how Mrs. Travers (like she always demands to be called against any familiarities) had a traumatic childhood mainly because of her father alcoholic behaviour despite the fact that they loved each other deeply. This explains her disagreeable and sometimes rude behaviour and way of treating other people. We don't know if this movie respects the truthfulness of what happened in fact concerning her relationship with Walt Disney and his collaborators while preparing the movie and that was full of disagreements. Anyway a work of art even when biographic doesn't need to respect truth in every detail and can use fancy to enhance it aesthetically providing it does not wrest the central meaning of the reality that happened in fact. Although some scenes are a bit caricatural the movie in its whole is totally acceptable and Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks do a wonderful job as the two main characters.