Guernsey film gets the thumbs up down under!

Sunday 29 April 2018

As the Guernsey film hits number three in the UK charts it is also getting rave reviews overseas.

Sisters; Heidi O'Donnell and Tara Heathcote were among the first to view the film in Sydney Australia at a filming on 19 April.

The pair who emigrated to Australia ten years ago were keen to be first to see the film that was named after their much loved birth place.

Ms O'Donnell said: "The film was incredible. Tara and I cried. My tears were for the islanders our grandmothers who endured the German occupation and it brought to the fore front of our minds the incredible suffering they had gone through. I was very disappointed having read the scenes were not filmed in Guernsey, but the scenery used definitely depicted the island as I remember it."

Ms O'Donnell said that because many people had read the book prior to the film there were groups watching it: "At the close of the movie people clapped and there were large groups which I would assume were from the many book reading groups that took place whilst the novel was a best seller. Over all loved it."

"Made me miss Home and I would watch it all over again."

Pictured l-r: Tara Heathcote and Heidi O'Donnell

This week the film was also confirmed as number three in the UK film charts, having taken almost one million pounds in the first week after its release.

There haven't been universal good reviews for the Guernsey film though, with some giving it as few as one star out of five or describing it as "twee".