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The Go-Between
Why this pick
Like A Month in the Country, it finds buried adult sorrow beneath an idyllic English summer, using landscape, memory and a restrained pace to make fleeting intimacy quietly devastating.
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MOVIE1987 1h 36m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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A Month in the Country
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The Shooting Party
Why this pick
This elegiac period drama shares the English countryside’s tactile beauty and an awareness that a tranquil, ordered world is shadowed by war, class and impending loss.
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The Secret Garden
Why this pick
Its restorative landscape and patient attention to damaged people healing through care, labour and seasonal change echo the gentle therapeutic movement of A Month in the Country.
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The Dig
Why this pick
An excavation on the eve of war becomes a hushed meditation on craft, grief and impermanence. It shares the original’s reverence for uncovering the past and for rural light.
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A Summer Story
Why this pick
Another delicately observed English period piece, shaped by a brief summer attachment, rural seclusion and the ache of feelings held back rather than plainly declared.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Set in 1920, the film follows the experiences of Tom Birkin (Colin Firth), who has been employed under a bequest to carry out restoration work on a Medieval mural discovered in a church in the small rural community of Oxgodby, Yorkshire. The escape to the idyllic countryside is cathartic for Birkin, haunted by his experiences in World War I. Birkin soon fits into the slow-paced life of the remote village, and over the course of a summer uncovering a painting begins to lose his trauma-induced stammer and tics.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Richard Vernon
Colonel Hebron
Tony Haygarth
Douthwaite
Tim Barker
Mossop
Eileen O'Brien
Mrs Ellerbeck
Elizabeth Anson
Lucy Sykes
Barbara Marten
Mrs Sykes
Ken Kitson
Mr Sykes
Lisa Taylor
Emily Clough