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Though this film falls into the 'ensemble acting' category, so finely entwined are the performances of every actor in the cast, the film clearly belongs to Dame Joan Plowright whose performance once again proves that she is one of the durable treasures of cinema and stage. How the two progress to the end of the film, finding new lives from old ones, forms the immensely touching finale to the film. Palfrey's loneliness is dissipated by Ludo and the effect is vice versa. Palfrey and Ludo grow increasingly bonded - they share many likes and tastes and meld into a beautiful relationship that would be the envy of any grandmother and grandson. The guests at the hotel are charmed by Ludo, and Mrs. Palfrey hastily informs Ludo that she has erred and Ludo agrees to pose as her grandson. Palfrey's guest will be her grandson Desmond: Mrs.

But at the hotel the guests presume that Mrs.

Palfrey offers him dinner at the hotel he gladly accepts. Out on an errand she falls and is befriended by a handsome young busker/writer Ludovic Meyer (Rupert Friend) who nurses her leg wound, makes her tea, and escorts her home. Palfrey realizes she has entered a world of loneliness. Yet despite multiple attempts her grandson Desmond (Lorcan O'Toole) doesn't respond and Mrs. Palfrey meets her fellow 'inmates' at dinner, and announces that she has a grandson who will be calling on her at times. Once settled into her barely navigable room, Mrs. Burton (Georgina Hale), and a strange old couple, the De Salises (Millicent Martin and Michael Culkin). Post (Marcia Warren), the nosy matchmaker Mrs. Arbuthnot (Anna Massey), a would-be suitor for Mrs. The Claremont is a crumbling old edifice that serves as a retirement home for a small but fascinating group of tenants: the fastidious but cranky Mrs.

Palfrey (Plowright) is recently widowed and decides to move to a small hotel in London to spend her last years as a lady of independence. It is a showcase for the extraordinary talents of Dame Joan Plowright who owns the title role and of relative newcomer Rupert Friend, surely an actor to watch rise. PALFREY AT THE CLAREMONT is an adaptation by Ruth Sacks of the book by British novelist Elizabeth Taylor (1912 - 1975) and directed with consummate skill by Dan Ireland.