A Month in the Country (1987)

Natasha Richardson: Alice Keach

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• Alice Keach : Oh, I'm sorry. Did I wake you?

  Birkin : That depends on... weather I'm awake or not.

• Alice Keach : I just came to find out if you're all right n the bell loft or if there's anything you needed. It seems so inhospitable, you up there on the floorboards and we in our beds.

• Alice Keach : The painting, when will we be able to see all of it?

  Birkin : I don't know. It's a bit like a jigsaw. A face, a shoe, here a bit, there a bit. It comes together very slowly, if it comes together at all. Of course, after... 500 years I can't be sure what I'll find.

  Alice Keach : But that's the exciting part, isn't it? Not knowing what's around the corner, like, er... like opening a parcel at Christmas. So you must let me see it. I'll haunt you a little until you do.

• Birkin : I suppose hell means different things to different people.

  Alice Keach : What does it mean to you?

  Birkin : Hell on Earth, I think.

• Alice Keach : Were you always in the... cleaning business, Mr Birkin?

  Birkin : My father traveled in... soap.