Love in a Cold Climate

Love in a Cold Climate (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2&4 )

Running Time:
154 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2001 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Tom Hooper

Written By:
Deborah Moggach

Actors:
Elisabeth Dermot Walsh ..... Linda (2 episodes, 2001)
Rosamund Pike ..... Fanny (2 episodes, 2001)
Megan Dodds ..... Polly (2 episodes, 2001)
Javier Alcina ..... Juan Lopez (2 episodes, 2001)
John Light ..... Christian (unknown episodes)
John Hopkins ..... Robert Parker (unknown episodes)
Zoe Waites ..... Lavender Davies (unknown episodes)
Christian Coulson ..... Matt (unknown episodes)
John Wood ..... Lord Merlin (unknown episodes)
Daniel Evans ..... Cedric (unknown episodes)
Samuel Labarthe ..... Fabrice (unknown episodes)
Anthony Andrews ..... Boy (unknown episodes)
Tom Ward ..... Alfred (unknown episodes)
Sheila Gish ..... Lady Montdore (unknown episodes)
Rupert Frazer ..... Lord Paddington (unknown episodes)
Alan Bates ..... Uncle Matthew (unknown episodes)
Celia Imrie ..... Aunt Sadie (unknown episodes)
Jemima Rooper ..... Jassy (unknown episodes)
Anna Popplewell ..... Victoria (unknown episodes)
Lulu Popplewell ..... Emma (unknown episodes)
Lavinia Bertram ..... Lady Patricia (unknown episodes)
Jeremy Child ..... Sir Leicester Kroesig (unknown episodes)
Cassandra Compton ..... Young Linda (unknown episodes)
Olivia Compton ..... Young Fanny (unknown episodes)
Sarah Crowden ..... Third Twitterer (unknown episodes)
Duane Fierro ..... Entertaining Gladiator (unknown episodes)
Sabina Franklyn ..... Second Twitterer (unknown episodes)
James Greene ..... Slipping Wig Lord (unknown episodes)
Lee Haven-Jones ..... Spanish Aid Worker (unknown episodes)
Jane How ..... Veronica (unknown episodes)
Richard Howard ..... Lawyer (unknown episodes)
John Normington ..... Dancing Vicar (unknown episodes)
Neville Phillips ..... Vicar (unknown episodes)
John Standing ..... Lord Montdore (unknown episodes)
Geoffrey Streatfield ..... Tony Kroesig (unknown episodes)
Sarah Twist ..... First Twitterer (unknown episodes)
Tim Wallers ..... Roly (unknown episodes)
Alan Williams ..... Religious Speaker (unknown episodes)
Paul Williamson ..... Monocled Lord (unknown episodes)

Synopsis:

The first British TV version of Nancy Mitford's autobiographical novel Love in a Cold Climate was telecast in seven hour-long installments in 1980. This 2001 version attempted to crystallize Mitford's long and labyrinthine narrative into a mere 150 minutes, and for the most part it succeeded. Set during the period from 1929 to 1940, the story (which also incorporates elements of another Mitford novel, The Pursuit of Love) largely takes place in an English country estate presided over by Matthew Radlett (Alan Bates), for whom the word "eccentric" must have been coined. When she isn't being "hunted" by her zany uncle for sport, Matthew's niece Fanny (Rosamund Pike), who serves as narrator, looks on compassionately while her cousin Linda (Elisabeth Dermot-Walsh) and her friend Polly (Megan Dodds) desperately seek out worthwhile and decent husbands, only to be thwarted at every turn by deceitful, duplicitous, dissolute, disagreeable, and otherwise unsuitable young swains. First telecast by the BBC on February 4, 2001, Love in a Cold Climate was shown in America as a two-part installment of PBS's Masterpiece Theatre on February 11 and 18, 2002.

Based on Love in a Cold Climate and The Pursuit of Love, two classic novels by aristocratic writer Nancy Mitford, this is a sumptuous and darkly comic costume drama about three upper-class young women and their quest for romance just before World War II. Celia Imrie, Alan Bates, Sheila Gish, Anthony Andrews and Frances Barber hurrah, hunt and bitch behind the pot plants, but this is more than tweeds, cocktails and country houses. It's also a sharp and witty look at the dying days of a particular breed of landed gentry. Based partly on Mitford's own life, it captures the highs and lows of the aristocratic smart set before World War II snuffed out their world forever. Directed by the Oscar winner for the King's Speech - Tom Hooper.

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