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Cold Comfort Farm

  • Film per la TV
  • 1995
  • PG
  • 1h 45min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
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Kate Beckinsale, Rufus Sewell, Ian McKellen, Eileen Atkins, and Ivan Kaye in Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
CommediaRomanticismo

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA recently orphaned young woman goes to live with eccentric relatives in Sussex, where she sets about improving their gloomy lives.A recently orphaned young woman goes to live with eccentric relatives in Sussex, where she sets about improving their gloomy lives.A recently orphaned young woman goes to live with eccentric relatives in Sussex, where she sets about improving their gloomy lives.

  • Regia
    • John Schlesinger
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Malcolm Bradbury
    • Stella Gibbons
  • Star
    • Eileen Atkins
    • Kate Beckinsale
    • Sheila Burrell
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    7,2/10
    7936
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • John Schlesinger
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Malcolm Bradbury
      • Stella Gibbons
    • Star
      • Eileen Atkins
      • Kate Beckinsale
      • Sheila Burrell
    • 86Recensioni degli utenti
    • 29Recensioni della critica
    • 82Metascore
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    • Ha vinto 1 BAFTA Award
      • 2 vittorie e 4 candidature totali

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    Interpreti principali33

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    Eileen Atkins
    Eileen Atkins
    • Judith Starkadder
    Kate Beckinsale
    Kate Beckinsale
    • Flora Poste
    Sheila Burrell
    Sheila Burrell
    • Ada Doom
    Stephen Fry
    Stephen Fry
    • Mybug
    Freddie Jones
    Freddie Jones
    • Adam Lambsbreath
    Joanna Lumley
    Joanna Lumley
    • Mrs. Mary Smiling
    Ian McKellen
    Ian McKellen
    • Amos Starkadder
    Miriam Margolyes
    Miriam Margolyes
    • Mrs. Beetle
    Rufus Sewell
    Rufus Sewell
    • Seth Starkadder
    Ivan Kaye
    Ivan Kaye
    • Reuben Starkadder
    Jeremy Peters
    • Urk
    Maria Miles
    • Elfine Starkadder
    Christopher Bowen
    Christopher Bowen
    • Charles Fairford
    Louise Rea
    • Meriam Beetle
    Sophie Revell
    • Rennet
    Rupert Penry-Jones
    Rupert Penry-Jones
    • Dick Hawk-Monitor
    Angela Thorne
    Angela Thorne
    • Mrs. Hawk-Monitor
    Tim Myers
    • Mr. Hawk-Monitor
    • Regia
      • John Schlesinger
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Malcolm Bradbury
      • Stella Gibbons
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    Recensioni degli utenti86

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    SarahNM

    Amusing, or diverting...not "such fun"

    I simply adore this movie! From beginning to end it shines with wit and hilarious depravity. Having read the book, I think it safe to say that this is one of the best transitions from page to screen. Everyone is perfectly cast in this - particularly Kate Beckinsale as Flora, Joanna Lumley as Mrs. Smiling, Eileen Atkins as Judith and Ian McKellen as Amos. Rufus Sewell makes for great eye-candy as Seth, and the virtually unknown Maria Miles is adorable as Elfine. Aunt Ada Doom, played by Sheila Burrell, constantly reminds us that "There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm," and although it's probably best to keep it that way, she's in for a few surprises. Flora's dealings with Mr. Mybug, hysterically portrayed by Stephen Fry, are alone worth the price of renting this movie.

    Flora's decision to go to Cold Comfort Farm after her parents die sets the tone for the rest of the movie; it sounds "Interesting and appalling...the others just sound appalling!" If you want a good chuckle, or just love good British humor, by all means, see this movie!
    dennisayers

    "I'd take the old woman as well -- but she's so gloomy!"

    This film was produced for BBC television but had a theatrical release the next year -- probably to take advantage of the popularity of all those Jane Austen movies (Emma, Persuasion, et. al.) It is not a Jane Austen story, but it is a sort of genial romance/comedy of manners (set in the early 1930's?) with a plucky, bright, but penniless heroine. The book it was based on was actually a parody of Gothic romance fiction. Even though this movie is played for laughs (and has many), it still manages to make you care for the characters. Everything works here and (editing, cinematography, performances) and you really appreciate what the director, John Schlesinger, managed to do on a probably skimpy budget.

    This movie was the first I ever saw of Kate Beckinsale and I thought she was fantastic in it. I remained a fan for a long while, even though her subsequent movie performances (and choices) have been awful. She finally lost me with her recent laughable turn in Van Helsing. Nevertheless, she WAS good in Cold Comfort Farm, so if you're no fan of Beckinsale don't let that dissuade you from seeing this movie.

    Other standouts in the cast are Eileen Atkins, Rufus Sewell, and Ian McKellen who is screamingly funny as a fire and brimstone preacher.

    This film is definitely worth having on video or DVD in that it bears up very well to repeated viewings. I've seen it at least 5 times since its release, and my estimation of it rises with each viewing.
    9MoviolaSteenbeck

    Laughter, Soaked in Nature's Fecund Blessing

    "Child, child. If you come to this doomed 'ouse, what is there to save you?"- Judith Starkadder in COLD COMFORT FARM.

    The "child" in question is the lone offspring of one Robert Poste (deceased) and, as we are soon to discover, Poste's progeny, Flora, is hardly one in need of saving. Orphaned in her budding womanhood, nettled by the golden orb of an unrealized literary career, Flora strikes out from the discerning (or snobbish) urban sophistication of London ( leaving behind her good friend Mary and Mary's invaluable manservant, Sneller) and heads for the bucolic splendor of the Sussex countryside to lodge with her relatives, the Starkadders, and find herself.

    Robert Poste's child finds instead: a muck-begrimed tumbledown estate wherein resides a ready-for-Hollywood womanizer (Cousin Seth), an estate-coveting farmer (Cousin Reuben), a daffy romantic (Cousin Elfine), a too-loving mother (Cousin Judith), a 'vengeful god', proselytizing father (Cousin Amos), and an iron-willed matriarch (Greataunt Ada Doom). There's also a smattering of Lambsbreath (Adam) and a smidgen of Hawk-Monitor (Dick).

    Inside the Starkadder fold Flora encounters a resistance to dish washing modernity (the twig versus the hand mop); the rumor of an unmentionable misdeed once perpetrated against her father; the oft-cited permanence of the Starkadders on their environs; and the matriarch's frequently mentioned trauma after having witnessed a particularly odious occurrence inside the outdoor log pile storage facility ("...something nasty in the woodshed"). Undaunted, Flora presents a cool brow and an almost impervious demeanor plus an extremely persuasive power to influence. Within COLD COMFORT FARM, where high fashion and applied scientific reasoning smash headlong into arrested sociological development and stunted personal/ familial growth, tear-inducing laughter is the order of the day.

    As mentioned in the comments of others, Ms. Beckinsale, clad in her natty period togs and radiating a winsome, unflappable aura (while also projecting a strangely prepubescent vibe), hasn't had as good a role since Flora. Meanwhile, those master thespians, Freddie Jones, Ian McKellan, and the inimitable Eileen Atkins nearly go mad with delight as they burrow gleefully into their characters. Rufus Sewell's Seth smolders hilariously while Stephen Fry's Mybug, "soaked in nature's fecund blessing", blusters uproariously. This sort of comedy of manners and cultural collision required an intelligent, perceptive and witty director. John Schlesinger (DARLING, 1965) fit the bill gloriously.
    Opticon

    Read the book

    Most movie versions of books are disappointing because a good book is always a far richer experience, but this one doesn't shame its source. In fact it's an amusing romp, largely because all the actors are letter perfect -- not easy with a broadly satiric story like this one. Flora Poste's romantic notions actually produce positive results with the loutish Starkadders, such as matching the etiolated Elfine with her true love and sending the smoldering Seth off to become an American film star, while Flora herself ends the movie linked to her own very suitable suitor. Dialogue and motion picture scenery cannot reproduce the exquisitely sly writing of Stella Gibbons, however, so if you liked this movie, by all means read the 1932 book. It's a classic parody of rustic melodrama.
    9eunice-4

    A wonderfully different comedy

    I first saw Cold Comfort Farm way back in the early 70's on TV, but this latest version is so much funnier. Kate Beckinsale makes a wonderful bossy "take charge" Flora, and everyone else in the cast is just hilarious. Eileen Atkins' scenery chewing when her son, played by Rufus Sewell, was leaving home to become a Hollywood film star, just about had me in hysterics. The dread menacing atmosphere, the dark hints about something seen in the woodshed, and the general squalor of a once prosperous family gone to ruin are all conveyed in a humourous but not slapstick or farcical way. The Starkadders mooch about muttering threateningly until Flora eventually sets them all on the right path to recovering prosperity. Flora is the kind of upbeat heroine who would take a hot cup of cocoa to Dracula "because he is probably cold after all that time in the tomb." A very enjoyable film for those who like something different.

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      Director John Schlesinger had to pay for the blow-up from 16mm to 35mm, because neither the BBC, nor Thames Television, who owned the overseas rights, thought the movie would work in the theater, and therefore would not waste their money on the print. It was the fifth highest-earning British movie released in U.S. theaters that year.
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      The candlestick on breakfast table during the first breakfast scene changes places depending upon the shot.
    • Citazioni

      Amos Starkadder: Ye miserable, crawlin' worms. Are ye here again then? Have ye come like Nimshi, son of Rehoboam, secretly out of your doomed houses, to hear what's comin' to ye? Have ye come, old and young, sick and well, matrons and virgins, if there be any virgins amongst you, which is not likely, the world being in the wicked state that it is. Have ye come to hear me tell you of the great, crimson, licking flames of hell fire? Aye! You've come, dozens of ye. Like rats to the granary, like field mice when it's harvest home. And what good will it do ye? You're all damned! Damned! Do you ever stop to think what that word means? No, you don't. It means endless, horrifying torment! It means your poor, sinful bodies stretched out on red-hot gridirons, in the nethermost, fiery pit of hell and those demons mocking ye while they waves cooling jellies in front of ye. You know what it's like when you burn your hand, taking a cake out of the oven, or lighting one of them godless cigarettes? And it stings with a fearful pain, aye? And you run to clap a bit of butter on it to take the pain away, aye? Well, I'll tell ye, there'll be no butter in hell!

    • Curiosità sui crediti
      The copyright at the end of this movie is listed as "MCMXV", which translates to 1915. The movie was copyrighted in 1995, so the numerals should read "MCMXCV".
    • Connessioni
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Twister/Captives/Boys/Dead Man/Cold Comfort Farm (1996)
    • Colonne sonore
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      Composed by Fats Waller (as Waller) / Raymond Klages (as Klayes)

      Published by EMI Music/Redwood Music

      Arrangement by Robert Lockhart

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    • Data di uscita
      • 10 maggio 1996 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paese di origine
      • Regno Unito
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
    • Celebre anche come
      • Nya vindar över Cold Comfort Farm
    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Kent and East Sussex Railway, Tenterden, Kent, Inghilterra, Regno Unito(trains and station)
    • Aziende produttrici
      • BBC Film
      • British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
      • Thames International
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    Botteghino

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    • Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
      • 5.682.429 USD
    • Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
      • 66.427 USD
      • 12 mag 1996
    • Lordo in tutto il mondo
      • 5.682.429 USD
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      1 ora 45 minuti
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      • Black and White
    • Mix di suoni
      • Dolby SR
    • Proporzioni
      • 1.85 : 1

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