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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781569387924
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 1569387923
Label: Acorn Media
Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Acorn Media
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 27, 2005
Running Time: 155 minutes
Sales Rank: 33288
Studio: Acorn Media
Theatrical Release Date: February 11, 2002
Editorial Review:
Description:
Based on Nancy Mitford’s beloved novels The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate—part thinly-veiled memoir, part biting satire, and part fascinating window on a vanished way of life—this witty drama from the BBC follows the romantic adventures of three young aristocrats in the decade between the wars.
Starring British acting legends Alan Bates (Gosford Park), Celia Imrie (Bridget Jones’s Diary), Sheila Gish (Mansfield Park), and Anthony Andrews (Brideshead Revisited), with young stars Rosamund Pike (Die Another Day), Elisabeth Dermot-Walsh (Bertie and Elizabeth), and Megan Dodds (Malice Aforethought). Providing an authentic backdrop are several English castles and country houses, including Batsford Park, home of the Mitford family from 1916 to 1919.
Amazon.com:
Love in a Cold Climate, Deborah Moggach's efficient 155-minute adaptation of Nancy Mitford's two best-known novels, hits an entirely appropriate balance between the comic and the sentimentally tragic. Viewpoint figure Fanny (Rosamund Pike) observes from her happy marriage the complicatedly messy lives of her two closest friends, Polly (Megan Dodds) and Linda (Elisabeth Dermot-Walsh). Polly escapes from a mother jealous of her beauty into a marriage that gets her disinherited and leaves her ultimately alone when her husband falls for the pretty male cousin who has supplanted her; Linda falls in turn for an Anglo-German banker, a posh young Communist who ships her off to the Spanish Civil War, and a brilliant doomed French aristocrat. Mingled with this sweet-sour material is the memorable comic relief: Linda's monstrous father and world-weary mother, the eccentric and affectionate Lord Merlin (John Wood) and Fanny's long-absent mother, the Bolter (Frances Barber). This has everything we expect from a BBC serial--excellent casting, a strong sense of period, and fast-paced direction. --Roz Kaveney
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A "Keeper"
This is another movie that I rented on Netflix and immediately after viewing it I knew I had to have my own copy. I enjoy this period in history and times that will never return. I started out feeling sorry for the very lovely Rosamund Pike who always gets treated as a second-class citizen but after all comes out a winner in the end. In fact, she is the major reason that I bought the DVD. All of the actors did a great job and there are many seasoned ones that helped make this film so good. If ... Read More
Rating: - An engaging adaptation though too brief.
I wish I had the opportunity of watching the 1980 British TV version of Love in a Cold Climate [7 hours long]. This 2001 version attempts to condense Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate and The Pursuit of Love into a 150 minutes production. It doesn't do justice to the books, but it certainly entertains, and the acting is simply marvelous.
The story is told from the point of view of Fanny [Rosamund Pike]who lives on her eccentric Uncle Matthew Radlett's [Alan Bates] estate with her ... Read More
Rating:  - BELOW AVERAGE FILM NOT AS ENTERTAINING AS BOOK
I picked up the book about two years ago and really enjoyed the world that Nancy Mitford created so when I saw that the BBC made a film I was excited because they are usually well written and acted. I was disappointed with this one however. I feel the writing failed to capture the light hearted essence of the novel and took itself way too seriously. And from there, it's dreariness pulled the cast down with it. It's a romance at the end of the day and there was nothing romantic about the cinematography ... Read More
Rating: - Love in a Cold Climate
I absolutely LOVE this movie. It is such a wonderful depiction of the life of the British upperclass in this period. I would have preferred two movies, one per book, only to have additional information on the people and period.
Rating: - Fantastic adaptation!
Having read both of the novels that this mini series is based on (and loving both of them) I was afraid that this adaptation might disappoint me, but even though the pace is pretty fast (I'm not quite sure that someone who is not familiar with the books would be able to follow the many stories, the loads of characters and the various threads) I loved the way they conveyed the spirit of the books and enjoyed this mini-series a lot.
The casting was excellent, the period was perfectly represented and ... Read More
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