Another Country details
| Format: | 15 DVD |
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| Starring: | Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Anna Massey, Michael Jenn, Cary Elwes, Betsy Brantley, Robert Addie, Rupert Wainright |
| Director: | Marek Kanievska |
| Genres: | Drama - Romantic, Romance - Comedy, General |
| Studio: | FILM 4 |
| Name | Discs | |
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Another Country |
15 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 30 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 17 Mar 2008 |
| Main languages: | English |
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Excellent
By Ed from Manchester , 27 May 2005[Highly rated reviewer]
The above 'official' critique is wrong - thats a completely different film... To the film - i remember this film from childhood. In the opening shots of the film you see his character sitting in a grey room, beginning to tell his story of what made him become a spy. The rest of the film is very similar to merchant ivory fodder - 'Old England', set pre-war in a Public School, lots of restrained emotion with Rupert Everett as the lead character. Rupert plays a public school boy who goes against the norm. He plays a gay character who falls in love with a fellow schoolboy. He also counts a fellow communist classmate as a good friend and ally. He is from a well to do family and all he wants is to become a 'God', an uber prefect if you like. Theres alot of anger in him, seen especially when he sees his dream slipping through his fingers as the hypocricy of the english public school system becomes apparent. His becoming a spy seems, overall, only a pyric victory over his very english upbringing. His being true to himself costing him his future.
Based on a true story, the cinematography takes you into a world long gone and though visually its relaxing on the eye with beautiful views of old school buildings and english countryside, the subtext is quite dark. I particularly enjoyed its revoking of a bygone era and how it portrays the stiff upper lip approach as too hard for some to take, ultimately causing them to crack under pressure....- Was this review helpful to you?
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(40)Friendship Brought Them Together... Ideals Set Them Apart !!!
By a customer , 15 Jun 2013Based on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies..... 'Another Country' is a really good romantic-drama.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Cricket, sandwiches and England
By a customer , 03 Apr 2013This is a fantastic film based on a true story. It is a great representation of school: young people's characters forming and embracing ideas. If that is not enough to make you watch, just lie back and think of cricket sweaters, cucumber sandwiches and England.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Another one to watch.
By Bobsview (559 reviews) from Gloucestershire , 18 Feb 2013Good depiction of outrageously privileged pre war elite life at Eton and how it produced a number of homosexual rebel communists who became spies for Russia.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Excellent Movie
By Hogules (8 reviews) from Bath , 28 Dec 2012THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS Show review anywayHide
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Neglected classic
By Electricvic (84 reviews) from London , 29 Feb 2012An exploration of why Guy Burgess (thinly disguised here as 'Guy Bennett') became a 'traitor' - spying for the Soviets while an MI5 agent. The premise of the film - that it was all because he failed to be elected as a 'God' at Eton - is not as ridiculous as it might seem. (While at the same time ridiculous, as being a God amounts to little more than wearing a stupid waistcoat.) Unlike his earnest communist friend Judd (Colin Firth), Guy (Rupert Everett) desperately wants to be part of the establishment. It's not so much his homosexuality that's the problem - it's the fact that he insists on being so obvious about it.
This is a brilliant film which - being based on a stage play - is somewhat talk-heavy and light on action, but which is absorbing and surprisingly fresh (given that almost all the scenes are set in medieval scholastic buildings).
In fact this really deserves to be better known than it is, as the best of a whole series of state of the nation type movies produced in Thatcher's Britain, where a strong strain of artistic opinion refused to agree that what we all needed was a return to Victorian Values.
For God's sake, this film is set in the 1930s but people still send their children to Eton so they can be part of a tiny, tradition-obsessed elite and get to rule the country. Plus ca change... Great performances by Everett and Firth, among a cast where they are they only familiar faces apart from Anna Massey as Guy's Mum.- Was this review helpful to you?
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