Blackberry season
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Blackberry season |
| Original title | The Land Girls |
| Country of production | Great Britain , France |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | David Leland |
| script | Keith Dewhurst , David Leland |
| production | Ruth Jackson , Simon Relph |
| music | Brian Lock |
| camera | Henry Braham |
| cut | Nick Moore |
| occupation | |
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The Land Girls ( The Land Girls ) is a British - French film drama by David Leland from the year 1998 . Keith Dewhurst and David Leland wrote the screenplay based on the novel Land Girls by Angela Huth from 1994.
action
The action takes place during the Second World War . In England, the Women's Land Army campaign is being carried out, as part of which city women are placed on farms as workers. They replace the fighting men there.
In 1941 the studied Ag, the hairdresser Prue and the banker's daughter Stella take part in this campaign. They are referred to the Lawrence family farm in Dorset , where they become friends. The owner of the farm, John Lawrence, is initially skeptical as to whether the young women are even suitable for the hard work there. However, they take over all work on the farm such as plowing, harvesting, milking or caring for the animals without complaint and successfully.
After a while, Prue begins a brief affair with the family's son, Joe Lawrence, who is actually engaged to Janet. Prue later falls in love with a pilot and marries him. A short time later, however, he is killed in combat. Ag, still a virgin at 26, asks Joe to deflower her, which he initially indignantly refuses, but does anyway a short time later. However, this one-time encounter remains, as Ag has no further feelings for Joe, but falls in love with a Canadian officer. Stella, who has been engaged to the naval officer Philip for a long time, finally falls in love with Joe and decides, when he returns her feelings, to part with Philip. Meanwhile, Philip was badly wounded. When she visits the hospital, she learns that he has lost both legs. She chooses him and does not return to the farm where Joe is waiting for her.
Years later, the war is over, the three women and Joe meet again at the christening of Prue's child. Prue married a wealthy man who is significantly older than her. Ag is happily married to the Canadian officer. Stella is married to Philip, but the divorce is imminent because Philip has left her because of another woman. Joe, who now owns the farm after his father's death, is married to Janet and has two children with her. There is a brief encounter between Joe and Stella, where it becomes clear that both still feel for each other. But time cannot be turned back, so that both go their separate ways afterwards.
Reviews
James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that the film differs from the other films about World War II because it does not show men fighting in France, Germany or the South Pacific, but women in England. The love story is "formulaic". Catherine McCormack is just as "enchanting" as in her earlier films; Rachel Weisz is less impressive, but she has little to do in the film. Anna Friel radiates “vital energy”.
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on June 26, 1998 that he had seen the country life shown as particularly real while watching. The plot, however, is “thin” and “routine”: “Flirtations, broken hearts, bittersweet remorse”.
Kevin Thomas wrote in the Los Angeles Times on June 12, 1998 that the film was a "surefire heartbreaker" targeting American audiences. It shows an old-fashioned picture of women, but with an openness that would not be possible in the films of the 1940s. At the end, however, he "lapsed" into a soap opera ("By the time it's over," The Land Girls "has lapsed into soap opera").
"A mixture of farm eroticism and historicizing patriotism, illustrated in expansive pictures, which is exhausted in tiring arts and crafts."
background
The film was shot in various locations in England , including Ealing Studios in London . It had its world premiere on January 20, 1998 at the Sundance Film Festival . The gross profit in British cinemas was approximately one million pounds sterling .
swell
- ^ Review by James Berardinelli, accessed July 11, 2007
- ^ Review by Roger Ebert, accessed on July 11, 2007
- ↑ Review by Kevin Thomas, accessed July 11, 2007
- ↑ Blackberry season. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 25, 2017 .
- ^ Filming locations for The Land Girls, accessed July 11, 2007
- ↑ The Land Girls premiere dates, accessed July 11, 2007
- ^ Box office / business for The Land Girls, accessed July 11, 2007
Web links
- The Land Girls in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Land Girls at rotten tomatoes (English)