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TITLE |
Country Life (1994) |
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DIRECTOR |
Michael
Blakemore
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NOTES |
Loosely
adapted from Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and set on a |
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sheep farm
in the Australian outback (New South Wales) in |
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1919. Now
Uncle Vanya is one of the great plays of the 20th |
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Century
(about 1904) but this is not a great film. It's not that |
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bad and it
does achieve some of atmosphere of the Chekhov |
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original
which is something like playing croquet on a lawn lain |
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Suffice to
say that this is a drama about a family in which the |
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real issues
simmer until near the end. People are not quite |
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what they
seem. And others who perhaps shouldn't have |
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There is a
young man, Billy, who has lost a leg during The |
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