pixienat
13Sep12
DISLIKE. ALSO it's the EDWARDIAN ERA not the "Victorian" era.
I saw this and read EM Forster's Maurice the next day - set at the same time, there is also an amazing cricket match sequence - in this case two man's forbidden love it played out in much the same way - made me wonder if it was an inspriration for it.
Losey's Palme d'Or winning adaptation of L.P. Hartley's superb Edwardian-set novel is very enjoyable but could have been a lot better. A young boy staying at the country home of a wealthy school friend becomes involved in a doomed love affair between his friend's sister and a local farmer when he agrees to deliver messages between the two. Like other Losey films I've seen, e.g. Accident, I found it a little cold.....