The Last September
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Actor: David Tennant, Keeley Hawes, Michael Gambon, Richard Roxburgh, Tom HickeyBrand: Lions Gate
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-09-12
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of The Last September
Movie Review: Most Beautifully Photographed Film I've Ever Seen!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am discovering these hidden gems long after they are released, thanks to Netflix. While the film is 10 yrs. old, I just discovered it today. I am going to order it for my library and watch it when I feel the need to escape NYC's mean streets. The costumes, music, Irish countryside, visuals and audio are beyond beautiful. Who really cares what the film is about? You must see it to understand how I can say it is the most beautiful film I've ever seen. Bees floating from rose to rose are so loud and so close up you feel you can reach through the screen and catch them. Everyone in the film is magical. You are transported back to a time that will never exist again. Beautifully adapted from the book. I am just so thrilled I found it today. Words cannot describe what you will feel watching it. I know I will watch it often in 2010 and beyond. A masterpiece.
Summary of The Last September
LAST SEPTEMBER - DVD MovieThe Last September opens with a title card portentously announcing that what we are about to see is "the end of a world." Not, it turns out, too great an overstatement. In 1920 Ireland, a wealthy group of Anglo-Irish, the English-descended "tribe" who historically had overseen the country on behalf of its colonial rulers, seat ensconced in their luxurious estate. Just down the road, throughout small towns and villages, the British army is arrogantly terrorizing storeowners, and isolated IRA factions are responding by killing the occasional soldier. But at Sir Richard Naylor's palatial residence no such troubles need interfere. There the daily routine is still built around tennis matches, picnic parties, nature walks, and evenings spent on the lawn watching the stars. Young Lois (Keeley Hawes), niece of Sir Richard (Michael Gambon) and his wife (Maggie Smith), has lived there her entire life and has recently caught the fancy of a sweetly earnest military captain. But when a childhood friend of hers--in hiding after his murder of an army sergeant--takes refuge in a nearby abandoned mill, the thrill of danger and daring, of finally something different after all those maddeningly pleasant years, leads her down a different path. While The Last September is sometimes overly pretty in the British fashion, it benefits enormously from its excellent cast and novelist John Banville's smart, efficient script, which is alert to the nuances of conversations in which the most horrible threats are made and fears confided just below the polite chatter. --Bruce Reid
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