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A Month by the Lake

A Month by the Lake

Comedy Drama Romance

1995, Movie, 1h 32min

For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist father has recently died and the only other English-speaking guests are brash Americans. Then Major Wilshaw arrives. He suggests they meet for cocktails and Miss Bentley stands him up -- not even thinking about it -- as she helps the new nanny of an Italian family settle in. Miss Beaumont, a tall, young American who has dropped out of finishing school in Switzerland, is bored and finds some amusement in flirting with the major, whose libido is awakened for the first time since before the great war. And Miss Bentley now finds more about the major to admire than his ears.

Country: United Kingdom,United States

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Cast:

Vanessa Redgrave,

Alessandro Gassmann,

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6.5

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Critic Louise Brealy

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6

This inoffensive slice of middle-aged romance (...) gives Vanessa Redgrave an unusual space for her comic talents...

Read full review at Empire

Critic Steve Davis

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7

...a movie of manners that's not constrained by the conventions which inform it.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

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