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Format: Laserdisc
Jul 1993
Rated R
Recording Mode: Stereo
Sound: Stereo
95 min.
UPC: 043396246362 |
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Movie Description
Tom Crick (Jeremy Irons) is a withered history teacher whose students don't find his lessons on the French Revolution worthwhile. So instead, Tom spends class time telling his students about some 30-year-old family skeletons he's trying, hopelessly, to forget. Though he shares them with his students, Tom's problems are wholly intimate: his wife, Mary, haunted by painful memories, is on the brink of insanity. But as Tom continues to talk, he goes further and further back in time, narrating a personal and social history filled with jealously, madness and death.
Synopsis
Tom Crick is a withered history teacher whose students don't find his lessons on the French Revolution worthwhile. So instead, Tom spends class time telling his students about 30 year-old family skeletons he's trying, hopelessly, to forget.
Though he shares them with his students, Tom's problems are wholly intimate: his wife, Mary is on the brink of insanity due to painful memories that haunt her. But as Tom continues to talk, he goes further and further back in time, narrating a personal and social history filled with jealously, madness and death.
Film Notes
Director Stephen Gyllenhaal's 1993 picture "A Dangerous Woman" was a similarly unusual tale about a "slow" woman living with her wealthy aunt. The sexually inexperienced character also find herself in a love triangle that leads to disaster. Like the film "Paris Trout," "Waterland" comes from a director with a strong visual imagination and an ability to translate work from written narrative.
Jeremy Irons and Sinead Cusack are husband and wife in real life, and she is the daughter of leading Irish actor Cyril Cusack.
Rated BBFC 15 by the British Board of Film Censors.
Industry Reviews
3 stars out of 5 -- "Strikingly shot....The film works mainly due to a raft of sensitive performances..."
Total Film - Mark Salisbury (09/01/2006)
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