Based on Enid Blyton's best-selling children's classic The Magic Faraway Tree follows Polly and Tim and their children Beth, Joe and Fran - a modern family who find themselves forced to relocate to the remote English countryside. Soon after the family's arrival in the countryside, the children discover a magical tree and its extraordinary and eccentric residents including treasured characters Moonface, Silky, Dame Washalot and Saucepan Man. At the top of the tree, they are transported to spectacular and fantastical lands and, through the joys and challenges of their adventures, the family learn to reconnect and value each other for the first time in years.

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Strauss's elegant romance brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna to cinemas worldwide in a sumptuous production by legendary director Otto Schenk that "is as beautiful as one could hope"(The New York Times). Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen stars as the title heroine, a young noble woman in search of love on her own terms. Radiant soprano Louise Alder is her sister, Zdenka, and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny is the dashing count who sweeps Arabella off her feet.