A Month in the Country (1987)

The October 2021 Club Film was A Month in the Country

The Storyline

Two shaken soldiers (Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh) recover from World War I one summer in a Yorkshire village.

The film is an adaptation of the 1980 novel of the same name by J. L. Carr, and stars Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson and Patrick Malahide. The screenplay was by Simon Gray.

Set in rural Yorkshire during the summer of 1920, the film follows a destitute World War I veteran employed to carry out restoration work on a Medieval mural discovered in a rural church while coming to terms with the after-effects of the war.

The film was shot during the summer of 1986 and featured an original score by Howard Blake. The film has been neglected since its 1987 cinema release and it was only in 2004 that an original 35 mm film print was discovered, due to the intervention of a fan.

The film received mixed reviews from the film club on the 17th October 2021 at 19:30.

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Running Time – 1hr 36mins (96 minutes)

UK Classification – PG