Another Country
by Marek Kanievska
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Actor: Colin Firth, Michael Jenn, Robert Addie, Rupert Everett, Rupert WainwrightDirector: Marek Kanievska
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Peter Biziou
Editor: Gerry Hambling
Producer: Alan Marshall
Producer: Julian Seymour
Producer: Robert Fox
Writer: Julian Mitchell
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-07
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: BBC Warner
Movie Reviews of Another Country
Movie Review: Fantastic Period Piece, Still Relevant To Today
Summary: 5 Stars
This film has multiple levels of involvement for everyone. Following the playwright's original intent (via the DVD's special features), it's much more a commentary or observation on British life and society over the decades as anything else. It's obviously directed square at Eton College, but for my money, doesn't ever go overboard. Yes, they had fags, young boys who did things at the behest of the older boys, but they are not portrayed as being at all abused. Yes, they caned each other, but the film does not make it sound anything more than the kinds of punishments that are meted out by judicial systems to adults later on in their lives, in other words, life at Eton (and other similar schools) is really all just a metaphore for actual later adult living.
The visuals are fantastic, the dialogue thoughtful. The characters are rather stereotyped, but that is quite necessary I think. The film is most certainly not a gay film per se, but does clevery allow that society has gay folk and they must play a part. Bennett is gay, but that really has nothing to do with his moody presence. He wants too much from his culture before he is due, much like today's youth. Harcourt, his lover, is fancifully innocent of all this. Characters like the hated Fowler are all too real and in fact are the most honest of them all. Barkley portrays what I think is much more realistic, a prefect who wants others to trust him and he would never betray anyone. All in all, a great movie, a classic of British film in my opinion.
Summary of Another Country
Based on the award winning play by julian mitchell the film explores the effect of public school life in the 1930s on guy bennett (rupert everett) as his homosexuality and unwillingness to play the game turns him eastwards towards communist russia. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 07/12/2005 Starring: Colin Firth Rupert Everett Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Marek KanievskaAn indictment of the British class system dressed up like a Ralph Lauren ad, Another Country is the movie that made a very young and very gorgeous Rupert Everett a star. Whatever other ideas it has knocking around its head (and there are quite a lot of them), director Marek Kanievska's adaptation of Julian Mitchell's play is first and foremost a star vehicle for Everett, who played the openly gay main character with a vigor, flair, and smoldering appeal that was rarely seen onscreen in the early '80s. Everett is Guy Bennett, a charming, confident schoolboy in 1930s England who yearns to climb to the top of the social strata at his Eton-like school. His ambitions, however, are waylaid by the young and equally gorgeous James Harcourt (Cary Elwes), with whom he begins a passionate yet secret affair. Soon, however, Guy finds that balancing his love and his ambition is a no-win situation, and that no matter how hard he bucks against it, the ages-old traditional structures of British class and etiquette won't yield in his wake. Added to all this E.M. Forster-style drama and romance is the fact that Guy later on becomes a spy for the Russians against England; it's a weighty theme to drop on the movie, and the fact that it's a true story just shows how less than artfully the film unfolds. Still, holding it all together is the sublime Everett, who took this persona of the classy, beautiful, passionate, British gay man and ran with it throughout the '80s and '90s. With Colin Firth as Everett's Marxist (and heterosexual) compatriot. --Mark Englehart
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