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A Foreign Field on DVD (1993)

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Average rating: 70%
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Starring: Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, Edward Herrmann, John Randolph, Geraldine Chaplin, Lauren Bacall, Dorothy Grumbar, Jeanne Moreau
Director: Charles Sturridge
Studio: ACORN MEDIA
Run time: 90 mins
Certificate: 12
Genres: Drama, Television
Languages: English
Subtitles: English
Released: 03/03/2008

Brief synopsis of A Foreign Field

Five decades after blood flowed freely on its shores, Normandy is revisited by a handful of nostalgic World War Two veterans (Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, and John Randolph). It isn't long before the men begin to reopen old wounds as they explore the battlefield that shaped their lives. Two of the men search for an old flame (Jeanne Moreau) and, in their quest, find much more. A nostalgic, often comic, tale about loss and love.

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Rated - 5 starsPoignant remembrance

bfaulk44 from Bridgwater [Highly rated reviewer] , 11/08/2008

Star cast in a thoughtful well directed way. Alec Guinness was superb, wasn't he always superb.

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Rated - 4 starsA Foreign Field

A customer from London , 12/08/2008

This is one of those good/bad films, shifting from farce to pathos, which started off irritating me but left me very moved and regretting that it is so little known. A group of people, British and American, meet in Normandy to mourn their war dead and to search for a lost love. Charles Sturridge directs a wonderful cast, particularly Alec Guiness who is brilliant playing a man traumatised by the war.

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Rated - 3 starsExcellent acting but rather cliched story

A customer from Innerleithen , 22/08/2008

An excellent cast with Alex Guinness superb as a brain-damaged war veteran. The film tried to combine comedy with scenes that were meant to be moving, but only achieved bathos—the comedy being more successful, particularly the tarty character played by Jeanne Moreau. The script depicted most of the characters as caricatures for whom I felt little sympathy.

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Rated - 3 starsExcellent acting but rather cliched story

A customer from Innerleithen , 22/08/2008

An excellent cast with Alex Guinness superb as a brain-damaged war veteran. The film tried to combine comedy with scenes that were meant to be moving, but only achieved bathos—the comedy being more successful, particularly the tarty character played by Jeanne Moreau. The script depicted most of the characters as caricatures for whom I felt little sympathy.

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