Here’s a movie I would love to see, Miss Potter, about the life of the beloved writer, Beatrix Potter. It looks like the kind of film that would captivate me and take me to another world — for at least the duration of the movie.

Terry Whalin wrote a great review of it in The Writing Life, saying:

The breathless scenery is enough reason to see Miss Potter but the acting and story will touch your heart. Renee Zellweger plays Beatrix Potter and I loved this story and what it reveals about the mixture of art and creativity and writing in a real life setting. Not everyone understands the writing life but the creator of this film did so and captured it well.

Since it’s not playing in any theaters near me, I’ll have to wait until it comes out on DVD, I guess. The trailer here looks perfectly delightful. I notice someone attempted to write an on-set diary while the movie was being filmed, but it hasn’t been updated since last May. (I especially like the photo of a man pouring out a bag of fake snow.)