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Director: Peter Hall
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From Time Out Film Guide
A fitfully engaging oddity, adapted by Ronald Blythe from his own study of everyday life, past and present, in a Suffolk farming village. The use of non-professional actors is for the most part effective in a sub-Loachian kind of way, but the intercutting between the largely prosaic lives of Akenfield's contemporary inhabitants, and the harsher but seemingly more lyrical existence of their Edwardian forebears, makes for some fairly simplistic contrasts. That said, Ivan Strasberg's lush, soft-focus landscape photography - especially when accompanied by the lilting pastoral strains of Tippett's 'Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli' - imbues the past with a not unappealing romantic aura.Author: GA
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- John said...
- Posted on Sep 11 2007 19:27 Take a step back in time for a window on Suffolk. A beautiful film that captures the interest of young and old.
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Cast & crew
Director: Peter Hall
Producer: Peter Hall, Rex Pyke
Cast: Garrow Shand, Peggy Cole, Barbara Tilney, Lyn Brooks, Ida Page, Stanley Baxter full cast
Duration: 98 mins
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