The Whales of August (1987)
Country: US
Technical: col 90m
Director: Lindsay Anderson
Cast: Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, Vincent Price, Harry Carey Jnr
Synopsis:
On the coast of Maine two sisters, one blind and embittered, live out their declining years. Over the course of a difficult twenty-four hours their will to look to their future together is renewed.
Review:
A geriatric ensemble piece in which Gish particularly astonishes. It's a bit of a non-event really, Chekhovian in its mix of characters and elegiac tone but with no real change in its characters' predicament. Anderson directs his old timers with reverential restraint, among them a characteristically unostentatious Harry Carey Jnr, and it is all very easy-going and quietly effective. The whales, who do not come by this year, symbolise the will to endure the passing years that the Davis character wishes to put an end to: maybe next year...
Country: US
Technical: col 90m
Director: Lindsay Anderson
Cast: Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, Vincent Price, Harry Carey Jnr
Synopsis:
On the coast of Maine two sisters, one blind and embittered, live out their declining years. Over the course of a difficult twenty-four hours their will to look to their future together is renewed.
Review:
A geriatric ensemble piece in which Gish particularly astonishes. It's a bit of a non-event really, Chekhovian in its mix of characters and elegiac tone but with no real change in its characters' predicament. Anderson directs his old timers with reverential restraint, among them a characteristically unostentatious Harry Carey Jnr, and it is all very easy-going and quietly effective. The whales, who do not come by this year, symbolise the will to endure the passing years that the Davis character wishes to put an end to: maybe next year...
Country: US
Technical: col 90m
Director: Lindsay Anderson
Cast: Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, Vincent Price, Harry Carey Jnr
Synopsis:
On the coast of Maine two sisters, one blind and embittered, live out their declining years. Over the course of a difficult twenty-four hours their will to look to their future together is renewed.
Review:
A geriatric ensemble piece in which Gish particularly astonishes. It's a bit of a non-event really, Chekhovian in its mix of characters and elegiac tone but with no real change in its characters' predicament. Anderson directs his old timers with reverential restraint, among them a characteristically unostentatious Harry Carey Jnr, and it is all very easy-going and quietly effective. The whales, who do not come by this year, symbolise the will to endure the passing years that the Davis character wishes to put an end to: maybe next year...