The Land Girls (1998)
Country: GB/FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 111m
Director: David Leland
Cast: Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz, Anna Friel, Steven Mackintosh, Paul Bettany
Synopsis:
During WW2, three girls enrolled with the Women's Land Army find themselves working on a farm in Dorset. Despite feeling initially unwelcome, they soon settle in and their thoughts turn to 'country matters'.
Review:
Leland returns to the territory that briefly made him famous as a director, with Wish You Were Here. The amorous shenanigans concerning the farmer's son and the three girls cannot help but recall the Spanish wartime tale, Belle Epoque, and the tone is similarly light, unusually so for a wartime story involving summary death and disfigurement. That cheeriness is its chief delight, in fact, though the acting is variable and the concluding mood of lost love sits uneasily on the rest of the movie.
Country: GB/FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 111m
Director: David Leland
Cast: Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz, Anna Friel, Steven Mackintosh, Paul Bettany
Synopsis:
During WW2, three girls enrolled with the Women's Land Army find themselves working on a farm in Dorset. Despite feeling initially unwelcome, they soon settle in and their thoughts turn to 'country matters'.
Review:
Leland returns to the territory that briefly made him famous as a director, with Wish You Were Here. The amorous shenanigans concerning the farmer's son and the three girls cannot help but recall the Spanish wartime tale, Belle Epoque, and the tone is similarly light, unusually so for a wartime story involving summary death and disfigurement. That cheeriness is its chief delight, in fact, though the acting is variable and the concluding mood of lost love sits uneasily on the rest of the movie.
Country: GB/FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 111m
Director: David Leland
Cast: Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz, Anna Friel, Steven Mackintosh, Paul Bettany
Synopsis:
During WW2, three girls enrolled with the Women's Land Army find themselves working on a farm in Dorset. Despite feeling initially unwelcome, they soon settle in and their thoughts turn to 'country matters'.
Review:
Leland returns to the territory that briefly made him famous as a director, with Wish You Were Here. The amorous shenanigans concerning the farmer's son and the three girls cannot help but recall the Spanish wartime tale, Belle Epoque, and the tone is similarly light, unusually so for a wartime story involving summary death and disfigurement. That cheeriness is its chief delight, in fact, though the acting is variable and the concluding mood of lost love sits uneasily on the rest of the movie.