Five centuries ago, a mural was created in a country church in the north of England, and then hidden under layers of white paint. Looking at it again will be a distraction, the Reverend Mr....
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Cast
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| Colin Firth | ... | Birkin | |
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John Atkinsons | ... | Old Man on Train |
| Jim Carter | ... | Ellerbeck | |
| Patrick Malahide | ... | Reverend Keach | |
| Kenneth Branagh | ... | James Moon | |
| Richard Vernon | ... | Colonel Hebron | |
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Tim Barker | ... | Mossop |
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Vicki Arundale | ... | Kathy |
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Martin O'Neil | ... | Edgar |
| Natasha Richardson | ... | Alice Keach | |
| Tony Haygarth | ... | Douthwaite | |
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Eileen O'Brien | ... | Mrs. Ellerbeck |
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Elizabeth Anson | ... | Lucy Sykes |
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Barbara Marten | ... | Mrs. Sykes |
| Ken Kitson | ... | Mr. Sykes (as Kenneth Kitson) | |
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Five centuries ago, a mural was created in a country church in the north of England, and then hidden under layers of white paint. Looking at it again will be a distraction, the Reverend Mr. Keach tells World War I veteran Tom Birken, who will spend a month in the country restoring the mural. Another veteran, James Moon, is looking for the grave of an ancestor of the patroness of the church who fought in the Crusades. The rector's wife, Alice, comes to see the mural and later visits Birken's bell tower abode, bringing a basket of apples. Will she open the book in which he has pressed the yellow rose she gave him earlier? Written by Dale O'Connor <daleoc@interaccess.com>
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4 December 1987 (Ireland) See more »Also Known As:
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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.
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Written by Giuseppe Verdi
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Played when the medieval mural is revealed
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Part of the movie is slightly out of focus. This is not due to its age or careless restoration, nor is it intentional. Director Pat O'Connor says in an interview included in the BFI Blu-ray/DVD edition released in 2016 that he was furious about it at the time. See more »Goofs
According to Alice Keach, her roses are the variety Sarah Van Fleet. However, the film is set in 1920 and Sarah Van Fleet roses were not introduced until 1926. See more »Quotes
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.
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Quattro pezzi sacriWritten by Giuseppe Verdi
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I've just watched this haunting movie for the second time, after an interval of several years and having just read the book on which it's based. I feel as though the director,actors, cinematographer took a walk inside my head to pluck the images that lived there as I read the book. Of course, it was those images inside THEIR heads that have made this film the masterpiece that it is...to enrich the heart, restore the soul. Colin Firth brought the character, Tom Birkin, so fully into life, with his sensitivity, conflicts, process of restoration (both as a skilled worker and as a damaged human being) and yearnings one wonders why such roles as this haven't been offered him since. His brooding Mr Darcy in the TV version of "Pride and Prejudice" used some of these talents, but not nearly enough. Kenneth Branagh's fine understated playing of the equally war damaged archaelogist (and a closet homosexual) is amazing and brilliant, considering especially his over-the-top performances in later films. Lovely Natasha Richardson creates just the right tone of controlled longing of the unhappily married Alice Keagh. Jim Carter and the rest of the cast are splendid as well. This is a film to return to again and again for its visual and soulful beauty, simplicity and depth. What an antidote for the juvenile,frentic blockbuster fare we're offered for the most part by the movie "business."