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The Last September

Quinzaine 1999 | Feature film | 1h40

The action is set in County Cork, in southern Ireland, in 1920. Danielstown is a “Big House”, the country home of Sir Richard Naylor and his wife, Lady Myra. The Naylors belong to that class of Anglo-Irish aristocracy known as the Ascendancy, whose way of life – moneyed, graceful, essentially feudal – is coming to an end. The “native” Irish, carrying on the struggle for independence that began with the 1916 Rising, are engaged in a small-scale but murderous battle against the British Army in the form of the “Black and Tans”, a special force, consisting mainly of embittered veterans of the Great War, set up by the British to fight the IRA. The Naylors and their kind maintain a sceptical attitude to the war going on around them, insisting it is no more than the usual shenanigans that the natives have engaged in since time immemorial ; behind the facade of tennis parties and army camp dances, however, all know that the end is approaching.

Artistic & technical sheet

With
David Tennant
Fiona Shaw
Gary Lydon
Jane Birkin
Jonathan Slinger
Keeley Hawes
Lambert Wilson
Maggie Smith
Michael Gambon
Richard Roxburgh

Screenplay
John BanvilleAdapté du roman d’Elizabeth Bowen

Image
Slawomir Idziak

Editing
Kate Evans

Music
Zbigniew Preisner

Set decoration
Caroline Amies

production : Yvonne Thunder, ScalaThunder Ltd / Matrix Films and Television / Zagros Ltd et Ima Films, 15 Frith Street, Londres W1V 5TS, Grande-Bretagne, Tél. : (44 171) 734 7060, Fax : (44 171) 437 3248 vente à l’étranger : UGC International, 2 rue des Quatre-Fils, 75003 Paris, France, Tél. : 33 (0)1 40 29 89 00, Fax : 33 (0)1 40 29 89 10

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