A Month in the Country (1987)
Country: GB
Technical: col 96m
Director: Pat O'Connor
Cast: Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson, Patrick Malahide
Synopsis:
Two ex-servicemen come to a country village after World War I, the one to investigate graves in the local churchyard, the other to restore a mediæval painting beneath the plaster inside.
Review:
A beautiful, quietly intense film in the best British tradition, which introduced two fine young actors to the screen. The characters gradually reveal themselves to us; engaged in digging up the past, that is exactly what they are trying vainly to escape, and though the film's timespan is a finite Summer, the impression is of eternity stretching in both directions, fulfilled by the final vision of Burkin returning to the scene of his experience years later. Like A Canterbury Tale remade as an anti-war film.
Country: GB
Technical: col 96m
Director: Pat O'Connor
Cast: Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson, Patrick Malahide
Synopsis:
Two ex-servicemen come to a country village after World War I, the one to investigate graves in the local churchyard, the other to restore a mediæval painting beneath the plaster inside.
Review:
A beautiful, quietly intense film in the best British tradition, which introduced two fine young actors to the screen. The characters gradually reveal themselves to us; engaged in digging up the past, that is exactly what they are trying vainly to escape, and though the film's timespan is a finite Summer, the impression is of eternity stretching in both directions, fulfilled by the final vision of Burkin returning to the scene of his experience years later. Like A Canterbury Tale remade as an anti-war film.
Country: GB
Technical: col 96m
Director: Pat O'Connor
Cast: Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson, Patrick Malahide
Synopsis:
Two ex-servicemen come to a country village after World War I, the one to investigate graves in the local churchyard, the other to restore a mediæval painting beneath the plaster inside.
Review:
A beautiful, quietly intense film in the best British tradition, which introduced two fine young actors to the screen. The characters gradually reveal themselves to us; engaged in digging up the past, that is exactly what they are trying vainly to escape, and though the film's timespan is a finite Summer, the impression is of eternity stretching in both directions, fulfilled by the final vision of Burkin returning to the scene of his experience years later. Like A Canterbury Tale remade as an anti-war film.