Movie Reviews for A Month by the Lake

A Month by the Lake

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Movie Reviews of A Month by the Lake

Movie Review: Liked This Movie!
Summary: 4 Stars

I liked this movie alot. Great acting and is a movie you will watch more than once.

Movie Review: A Month by the Lake
Summary: 4 Stars

a gentle story of expat life in Italy just prior to WWII - well acted by all.

Movie Review: Beautifully produced, lovely locations, uneven performances
Summary: 3 Stars

This film was made after the blazing and much deserved success of "Enchanted April," a completely bewitching film about English women who rent a villa in Italy without knowing each other beforehand. If you like this at all, see "Enchanted April" - an infinitely superior film.

This film, a woman's film too, has similar beautiful locations, late 1930s, early 1940s settings and style, and a thinner romantic plot at it's core. Vanessa Redgrave and Edward Fox give lovely quiet performances as they meet sweet and irritate each other. Both suffer from middle aged wandering eye to some degree, which drives the plot as we wonder if they will, or will not get together. Unfortunately, neither one of them is a particularly likable character. We are supposed to like Redgrave because she is lanky and lopes along, and we are supposed to like him because SHE finds something redeemable.

Worse, the rest of the cast is extremely uneven in performance, and Thuman turns in her most artificial and posey work. She is lovely and the camera loves her, but she was young, and this is a high school level performance, she seems very ill at ease in this role. By contrast Redgrave's Italian boy interest does a very fine job, perhaps because most of his scenes are with her.

The story is rather predictable, and for classic film fans, we get to see Alida Valli (The Third Man) in her later years. Sadly, her performance is also uneven. When it shows up in so many cast members, one has to attribute this to the Director. Some of them seem to be playing a broad comedy, but the 2 leads are in a refined drama.

For me it was a little too wispy and feels like too much meringe. For many this will be a fine, light entertaining diversion.

Movie Review: I wish I had listened to J Kara Russell
Summary: 3 Stars

I wish I had listened to the "most helpful critical review" instead of the most helpful positive one. This is an okay film for a rainy afternoon, but certainly not in the same class as Enchanted April or Shirley Valentine or A Room With a View or ... well, you get the idea. It's not quite disappointing enough to warrant two stars, but it's close.