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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
Lavinia Currier eschews the glitz and glitter of Hollywood and New York.
In Levis and a faded blue work shirt, without makeup and with her blonde hair falling easily around her face, she looks the country girls as she relaxes over a cup of hot tea at a neighborhood restaurant.
She glances over her shoulder and out the window every few minutes, checking on the lumbering old golden retriever who waits patiently in the Jeep outside.
Will success spoil this 28-year-old filmmaker from Fauquier County? Reaction to her first feature filem, Heart of the Garden , has been heady stuff.
“Heart of the Garden is like Gone with the Wind distilled to a haiku (the classical Japanese verse form),” praised Variety Magazine.
“Rarely does a debut director dare emerge with a serious contribution to a new tradition in film and succeed in the way Lavinia Currier does with the gentle Southern poetry of Heart of the Garden,” reviewer Karen Jaena proclaimed.
But despite the applause, Miss Currier, as well as her film, remains perfectly described by “gentle.”
She’s no stereotype of a director. It’s difficult enough to envision this small, slender, soft-spoken woman shouting orders to temperamental actors and actresses, lighting technicians, wardrobe staff and camera men. It’s almost impossible to imagine her growing the tough hide to protect against the slings and arrows of outrageous critics.
Miss Currier, to borrow a comparison from the movies, is Briar Rose come to life from the Walt Disney
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