A Month by the Lake
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Disney
EAN: 0786936220346
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Label: Miramax
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Miramax
MPN: DISD30899D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 01, 2003
Running Time: 92 minutes
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: September 22, 1995
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Editorial Review:Product Description:When a handsome stranger meets up with two flirtatious women just imagine what can happen. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 01/04/2005 Starring: Uma Thurman Edward Fox Run time: 91 minutes Rating: Pg
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It is 1937, and a spunky spinster (Vanessa Redgrave) is spending a month at a villa on Lake Como. There she is intrigued by a pompous old major (Edward Fox), but he has eyes only for a lovely but cruel young nanny (Uma Thurmon).
How could a movie about beautiful Lake Como and a lovelorn English lady go wrong? Apparently, very easily. This terribly-misguided movie has a juvenile script, hammy actors, and poor direction. Even the wardrobe, makeup, and hairdos are way off, looking like contemporary styles rather than pre-WWII. The attraction between the spinster and the major is never explained and their bantering is off-putting as well as boring. Thurmon over-enunciates every syllable and shouts like she's doing a (bad) high school play. None of the stars is believable in their roles.
Despite the picturesque location, there's absolutely nothing romantic about this movie. Disappointing.
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a gentle story of expat life in Italy just prior to WWII - well acted by all.
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I liked this movie alot. Great acting and is a movie you will watch more than once.
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I love this movie and watch it again and again. (Eventually, I realized that I had to own it.) Vanessa Redgrave does such a great job of portraying an older woman who lives joyfully for the moment. Though she may have regrets for a lost love and her recently deceased father, this woman is contagiously happy. I would have preferred someone else to play the male lead. Edward M. Fox is so stiff. He does a wonderful job with the vulnerability of his character; a military and business man who has never had the time for romantic love and is now older and attracted to a much younger woman. He appears to be very uncomfortable with touching another person. But, that may be the character. The embrace at the end is very stiff and I feel uncomfortable for them both. Uma Thurman is the nanny; who appears to vastly overact her part, leading Fox's character on until he realizes how hopeless it is for an older man to pursue a young, immature, and superficial woman.
Vanessa's and Edward's characters are staying at a hotel on Lake Como in northern Italy before the beginning of WWII. She has just lost her beloved father, whom she lived with for decades and vacationed with every summer at the Lake. He is taking perhaps the first vacation of his adult life; leaving his engineering firm in England in the hands of others for the first time. Both are unmarried and appear to like each other. But, they would have separated and never met again, if a temporary American nanny who is also staying at the hotel had not interfered.
It is a delightful romp of arguments, competition, jealousy, and love; reminding me of the classic Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn films. But, Edward Fox is definitely no Spencer Tracy.
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I'm baffled by some of the negative reviews. It escapes me how anyone can not be enthralled with this splendid production. The story, the acting, the setting are first rate. Of course if you've not reached or passed middle age, one can understand how viewers may be put off by the pace of the movie and the oblique dialogue that says more by its understatement and passivity. For capturing the tension that exists between two unattached and seemingly different personalities who are confronting aging and loneliness, Fox and Redgrave give hallmark performances.Thurman also adds much to triangular relationship that addresses the folly of a young coquette enticing then ridiculing an older man. This is a classic that can be enjoyed over and over. There is something to be gleaned from each of its perfect ninety-two minutes running time. This sleeper is a keeper.
Copyright ©2003, Mark Carey.
