MOTHERING SUNDAY | Exclusive Featurette

Eva Husson, Colin Firth, Odessa Young, and Elizabeth Karlson behind the scenes of MOTHERING SUNDAY. Directed By: Eva Husson Written By: Alice Birch Based on the novel by: Graham Swift Starring: Odessa Young, Josh O’Connor, Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Patsy Ferran, Emma D’Arcy, with Glenda Jackson, and Olivia Colman, and Colin Firth Official Selection at Cannes, Toronto, and London Film Festivals. On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young) finds herself alone on Mother’s Day. Her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Niven (Colin Firth and Olivia Colman), are out and she has the rare chance to spend quality time with her secret lover. Paul (Josh O’Connor) is the boy from the manor house nearby, Jane’s long-term love despite the fact that he’s engaged to be married to another woman, a childhood friend and daughter of his parents’ friends. But events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane’s life forever. #M