

“Pat O’Connor’s superb second feature A Month in the Country is a gem of a film, its miniaturist beauties a fine tribute to the best of the British renaissance.” What’s On Read more “O’Connor directs Simon Gray’s script with great sensitivity… All the performances are accomplished, and “This spare, near-perfect film-beautifully crafted and almost painfully moving-is an example of British film-making at its best”, Evan Williams, The Weekend Australian, ApRead more

The story follows their relationships with each other and the local villagers who show an interest in them. At the same time, another veteran and archeologist, James Moon, is searching the graveyard on behalf of the church’s patroness for an ancestor who fought in the Crusades. A World War I veteran, Tom Birkin, is employed to uncover a medieval mural in a country church which is believed to lie beneath layers of whitewash.

A Month in the Country is based on the novel by J L Carr.
