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Bookmark this pageRequiem for a Village (1975)
Director: David Gladwell
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Here the dead quite literally arise, and an old man follows them into church where, his youth regained, he relives his wedding in a sleepy Suffolk village, now under siege from ice-cream vans, motorcycles and excavators. The film proceeds, within the framework of the old man's working day, slowly and with scrupulous detail, to build a picture of the village as it was in his youth. What separates the movie, however, from a mere wistful lament for happier times, is the way in which its parts cohere around the central conceit that, through memory, the past and present merge to form a bond which proves stronger than death itself.Author: JPy
Cast & crew
Director: David Gladwell
Producer: Michael Raeburn
Cast: Vic Smith, the villagers of Witnesham and Metfield, Suffolk full cast
Duration: 68 mins
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