The Last September
Jan 20, 2015 10:25:56 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2015 10:25:56 GMT -5
The Last September is a poetic study of Anglo-Irish aristocracy under the cosh, with a great cast.
We saw it at the weekend, and were most impressed. I did not know very much about the Irish civil war, so it was something of a history lesson for me, too! The film is a beautifully composed first feature from theatre director Deborah Warner, with John Banville adapting Elizabeth Bowen’s novel. Magisterial, upper-class Smith and gruffly impervious Gambon head up an Anglo-Irish family in 1920’s County Cork, between the Easter Rising and the civil war. Hawes is dangerously caught between the attentions of a British officer (David Tennant) and her love for a Republican (Gary Lydon).
From Shakespeare to comedy and from love interest to matriarch, Dame Maggie Smith remains a class act!
BFI - Maggie Smith
We saw it at the weekend, and were most impressed. I did not know very much about the Irish civil war, so it was something of a history lesson for me, too! The film is a beautifully composed first feature from theatre director Deborah Warner, with John Banville adapting Elizabeth Bowen’s novel. Magisterial, upper-class Smith and gruffly impervious Gambon head up an Anglo-Irish family in 1920’s County Cork, between the Easter Rising and the civil war. Hawes is dangerously caught between the attentions of a British officer (David Tennant) and her love for a Republican (Gary Lydon).
From Shakespeare to comedy and from love interest to matriarch, Dame Maggie Smith remains a class act!
BFI - Maggie Smith