The Last September (1998)
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 24
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 14
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Average Rating: 7.2/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 1
No consensus yet.
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Average Rating: 2.9/5
User Ratings: 766
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Love, politics, and class at once bring together and tear apart an extended family in this period drama. In 1920, Ireland is in the midst of a political upheaval, as upper class Anglo-Irish Protestants are driven from the country by the nation's increasingly vocal wishes Irish Catholic majority. Sir Richard Naylor (Michael Gambon) and his wife Lady Myra (Maggie Smith) are wealthy members of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy who slowly realize the life they've known in County Cork is coming to an end.
Apr 21, 2000 Wide
Sep 26, 2000
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Cast
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Maggie Smith
Lady Myra -
Michael Gambon
Sir Richard Naylor -
Jane Birkin
Francie Montmorency -
Fiona Shaw
Marda Norton -
Lambert Wilson
Hugo Montmorency -
David Tennant
Capt. Gerald Colthurst -
Richard Roxburgh
Daventry -
Keeley Hawes
Lois Farquar -
Gary Lydon
Peter Connolly -
Jonathan Slinger
Laurence Carstairs
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All Critics (42) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (14) | DVD (3)
Expends so much effort looking good and creating a dreamy atmosphere that its makers seem not to care about maintaining narrative coherence or building emotional resonance.
Slow, stately, and boring.
Absolutely dreadful -- boring, boring, boring.
An entrancing film about yearning.
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[font=Century Gothic]"The Last September" has little plot and concerns itself more with place and time setting the mood but the movie is too similar to "Rules of the Game" and "May Fools" for it to be successful. It wastes a very good cast which includes Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon and Jane Birkin.[/font]
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[font=Century Gothic]At the heart of the movie are issues of identity and class. The ruling class identifies themselves as Irish even though the native population disagrees and thinks of them as English.[/font]
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