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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful
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I cannot rate this film highly enough....fair enough you do need to have some romanticism in your veins but this is film making at the highest level. It took Lean around 12 months to shoot this and he took no prisoners...some hollywood execs came over to try and get him to get a move on!....Lean was having none of it, and they left him to it. One of the best scenes ever is towards the end of the film when the British officer is about to end his life...check the varying degrees of sunset, filmed to perfection with no shortcuts, and the shot of the film, (only a few seconds long) is his cigarette tin on the sand with the lid moving slightly on the breeze with the sun reflecting on it....Only a director of Leans calibre could pull it off....take a bow to one of Britains finest!
60 of 62 people found the following review helpful
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David Lean's earthy drama takes place in a small village on the wild Irish seacoast. World War I is raging in Europe, but the villagers have their own war - against the British soldiers who are camped nearby. Teenager Rose Ryan (Sarah Miles), has a schoolgirl crush on her middle-aged teacher (Robert Mitchum) and dreams of becoming his wife. When they do marry, she is immediately disillusioned and seeks passion in the arms of the enemy, English Major Doryan (Christopher Jones).
Sarah Miles is perfect as the willful and conflicted young girl, and Mitchum, though an odd casting choice, is convincing as her kindly husband. Trevor Howard gives a wonderful performance as the town priest who knows everybody's business, and John Mills certainly deserved his Best Supporting Actor Oscar, playing a pitiful mute.
The rough and wild coast is beautifully photographed in the director's sweeping style, and Maurice Jarre's soundtrack is haunting. I was enchanted by this movie when it first came out, and still find it a lovely, sensual, and impressive film.
32 of 35 people found the following review helpful
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When this film was first released it had its fair share of detracters queueing up to slate it.Comming out in the early 70s was its biggest crime.A full on romance from a director whose love of the Irish landscape is unabashed,this film was not of its time.Robert Bolts screenplay has more to do with Madame Bovere than was picked up on by the critcs of the day who were anyway more likely to go with something less conservative.Bolts then wife, Sarah Miles,plays Rosie,(a clue to the colour of her glasses,)whose seduction of the widowed teacher(Robert Mitchum)leads to marriage which is betrayed when an English army officer is posted to the quiet Irish village.Subsequent events involving IRA gun runners,village pump gossip and the local informer bring Rosie and the officer to a tragic result.
Leans grand sweep and eye for the landscape do'nt fail him here.Set against the Irish west coast, Mitchum looks comfortable in this unusually laid back role.All the charecters work well with main plaudits going to Trevor Howard as the fiesty priest and John Mills as the mute 'village idiot',though he does remind one of Charles Laughtons hunchback to look at.Perhaps the local villagers come across as somewhat medeival as they bring their fury down on Rosie towards the end but this film is so absolutely gorgeous that most people will wink at that.
Leans grand sweep and eye for the landscape do'nt fail him here.Set against the Irish west coast, Mitchum looks comfortable in this unusually laid back role.All the charecters work well with main plaudits going to Trevor Howard as the fiesty priest and John Mills as the mute 'village idiot',though he does remind one of Charles Laughtons hunchback to look at.Perhaps the local villagers come across as somewhat medeival as they bring their fury down on Rosie towards the end but this film is so absolutely gorgeous that most people will wink at that.
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