A Month by the Lake
by John Irvin
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Actor: Alida Valli, Carlo Cartier, Edward Fox, Uma Thurman, Vanessa RedgraveDirector: John Irvin
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
Producer: Bob Weinstein
Producer: Cesare Landricina
Producer: Donna Gigliotti
Producer: Harvey Weinstein
Producer: Patricia Carr
Writer: H.E. Bates
Writer: Trevor Bentham
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
Published: 2003-07-01
DVD Release Date: 2003-07-01
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Miramax
Movie Reviews of A Month by the Lake
Movie Review: Wonderful, heartwarming romance
Summary: 5 Stars
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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