Akenfield (Hall, 1974): Garden Cinema, 6pm
This screening, part of the 1970-80 British Cinema season at the Garden Cinema, also screens on January 28th. Full details here. Tonight's presentation will feature an introduction by the writer and filmmaker Adam Scovell.
Time Out review:
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.
Geoff Andrew
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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