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Opal Whiteley returns to Oregon
OPAL: A MOVIE: Directed by Dina Ciraulo.
Screenplay by Dina Ciraulo, based on the story of
Opal Whiteley. Cinematography, Svetlana Cvetko.
Editor, Greg Sirota. Music, Terri Winston. Starring
Nayeli Adorador-Knudsen, Roxanne Eldred, George
Maguire and Gabriel Marin. 2011. R. 1 hour, 20
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or some of us, interest in Opal
Whiteley stems from the charm
of her tales about rambles in the
woods and farms around Cottage Grove
and the unique phrases and names she used
in her childhood diary. The fi rst sentences
of her diary capture some of the magic
of her childish language: “I like it — this
house we do live in being at the edge of the
near woods. So many little people do live
in the near woods. I do have conversations
with them. I found the near woods fi rst day
I did go explores.”
The diary refl ects Whiteley’s lifelong
fascination with the natural world.
Whiteley’s “explores” took her from the
woods to the house of “the girl who has
no seeing” and visits to animal friends
like the crow Lars Porsena of Clusium
and the “singing brooks that come going
to the rivière.” The rivière she writes of
is believed to be Mosby Creek, and her
use of French has been attributed to her
claims of French lineage, and the fact that
many French logging families were in the
vicinity during her childhood in the early
1900s. It’s also been used to substantiate
accusations that her diary is a hoax.
So for others, interest in Opal Whiteley
centers on the story of her life and the
question of whether she wrote that diary
as a child, as a hoax or as an adult with
a possible mental illness. Some have
speculated Whiteley was schizophrenic,
others that she had Aspergers Syndrome.
Many have mourned the fact that the
genius that was Whiteley spent the last half
of her life in an institution, writing no more
books and giving no more lectures on the
natural world.
Opal: A Movie focuses less on Whiteley’s
childhood years and more on the saga of her
life. Using old-fashioned acting with stilted
phrasing and sepia-toned shots, director
Dina Ciraulo chronicles Whiteley’s journey
from the woods — unfortunately not shot
in the unique old-growth forests of Oregon
but in the redwoods of California due to
fi nancial constraints — to her time at the
UO and all the way to Napsbury Hospital,
a care facility in England where she was
placed in 1948 when she was deemed
unable to care for herself. She died there
in 1992 at the age of 95 (the fi lm’s credits
mistakenly give the date as 1995).
For those familiar with the diary but less
familiar with Whiteley’s life as a whole,
the fi lm’s chronicle of her career lecturing
on nature, her time at the University of
Oregon, her dealings with the Atlantic
Monthly as it published her diary and
the confusion of her later years will be
intriguing. Opal bills itself as “inspired by
a true story” but, for the most part, it stays
close to historical accounts of her life. The
Cottage Grove Sentinel becomes the Elk
Grove Sentinel in the fi lm, and names are
changed, but the narrative takes few truly
fi ctional liberties.
Opal is unabashedly an art fi lm, seeking
a period look and tone. Whiteley is played
for most of the movie by Nayeli Adorador-
Knudsen, who is somehow reminiscent of
a dark-haired Drew Barrymore. For some,
the actor’s somewhat affected and overly
precious performance might grate.
It stays true to the storyline of
Whiteley’s life, and neither attempts to
confi rm nor deny her claims that she
was adopted by the Whiteley family and
was actually the daughter of France’s
Prince Henri d’Orléans. Her tombstone
in England bears the name she favored
in her later years — Francoise Marie de
Bourbon-Orleans — and the words “I
spake as a child.”
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