His luck is ours, because Redgrave gives a beautifully raw and affectingperformance that energizes every minute of this quirky and sometimes heartbreaking meditation on the meaning of family, both across the generations and across the globe.
You'll never hear a more powerfully affectingperformance of "Send in the Clowns, " or be more touched by the way in which she chastises the idealistic Henrik (Royen Kent) with the gentle disillusion of a woman who knows too much.