Cold Comfort Farm . Tucson Weekly . 06-20-96

Cold Comfort Farm

DIRECTED BY: John Schlesinger

REVIEWED: 06-20-96

John Schlesinger makes a wonderful comeback with Cold Comfort Farm, a zippy comedy with a very sly, British sense of humor. Tons of witty dialogue and clever asides pepper this story of a plucky gal who decides, after the death of her parents, to go live with the most "interesting" family members she can find in order to scavenge fuel for her writing career. The distant relatives she locates are closer to insane than interesting--a weird, gothic clan of vaguely inbred farmers who don't even observe the custom of afternoon tea. The plucky Flora Poste tries her 1930's modern-girl best to turn her relatives' shame-filled, squalid lives into something out of the society section. Ah--but will she succeed?

--Stacey Richter

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