A Month in the Country

United Kingdom

1987

96 Min

Color

1.85:1

English

Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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EXEC Johnny Goodman, John Hambley

CAST Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson, Patrick Malahide, Jim Carter, Tony Haygarth, Richard Vernon, John Atkinson, Tim Barker, Vicki Arundale

SOUND Peter Horrocks

Cannes (Un Certain Regard), New York, London

Synopsis

Five centuries ago a mural was created in a country church in the north of England and then hidden under layers of white paint. Looking at it again will be a distraction, the Rev. Mr. Keach tells WWI veteran Tom Birken who will spend a month in the country restoring the mural. Another veteran, Charles Moon, is looking for the grave of an ancestor of the patroness of the church who fought in the Crusades. The rector’s wife, Alice, comes to see the mural and later visits Birken’s bell tower abode, bringing a basket of apples. Will she open the book in which he has pressed the yellow rose she gave him earlier? —IMDb

Director

Pat O'Connor

Pat O’Connor, born in Ardmore, County Waterford, is an Irish film director.

In 1982, O’Connor won a Jacob’s Award for his direction of the RTÉ TV adaptation of William Trevor’s short story, Ballroom of Romance starring Cyril Cusack and Brenda Fricker. It was shot near the village of Ballycroy, County Mayo. He also directed Trevor’s One of Ourselves for BBC TV, again starring Cyril Cusack, and filmed in Cappoquin and Lismore, Co. Waterford.

O’Connor has been married since 1990 to Oscar-nominated actress Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, with whom he has two sons. He directed Mastrantonio in another William Trevor film adaptation, Fools of Fortune as well as The January Man. —Wikipedia