Here's an engaging marriage of the tremendous "Cold Comfort Farm" and that awful Italian "hired hand beds three sisters on a farm" film [whose name escapes me, which is a good thing].
This is an always~interesting character study of three radically different young British women who, during the early stages of WWII, join England's "Women's Land Army" ~ a war effort which had women working fields in order to cultivate more crops for food for the troops.
The trio lands in a rural farm, essentially because the farm's frequently~irrascible patriarch's randy son is about to join the RAF.
Said "joining" is continually postponed by the son for various reasons ~ all of which involve women, and several of which rotate around the "Land girls."
Sure, some of the material is derivative (what isn't, at this point in cinematic history?)
But the performances are perfect: the only scenery~chewing you'll see here is by the scenery itself ~ lush landscapes of meadows, earthy shots of the work at hand, terrific [and appropriate at all times] cinematography.
Cool reference to "Streetcar" leaps off the screen at a pivotal point in the film.
Nice wrap~up as well. I stumbled across this on cable and was amazed that this didn't come through the Detroit suburban area...
Now it's time for you to stumble upon it. You'll not regret the rental.
This is an always~interesting character study of three radically different young British women who, during the early stages of WWII, join England's "Women's Land Army" ~ a war effort which had women working fields in order to cultivate more crops for food for the troops.
The trio lands in a rural farm, essentially because the farm's frequently~irrascible patriarch's randy son is about to join the RAF.
Said "joining" is continually postponed by the son for various reasons ~ all of which involve women, and several of which rotate around the "Land girls."
Sure, some of the material is derivative (what isn't, at this point in cinematic history?)
But the performances are perfect: the only scenery~chewing you'll see here is by the scenery itself ~ lush landscapes of meadows, earthy shots of the work at hand, terrific [and appropriate at all times] cinematography.
Cool reference to "Streetcar" leaps off the screen at a pivotal point in the film.
Nice wrap~up as well. I stumbled across this on cable and was amazed that this didn't come through the Detroit suburban area...
Now it's time for you to stumble upon it. You'll not regret the rental.