British Film Institute Akenfield Blu-Ray Dvd [2016]

Name: British Film Institute Akenfield Blu-Ray Dvd [2016]
Brand: British Film Institute

British Film Institute

Akenfield (1974) A Film by Peter Hall BFI ( Dual Format UK DVD + Blu-ray ) \n\nBased on Ronald Blythe's acclaimed oral-history book Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village, Peter Hall's long un-seen, extraordinary film offers a lyrical yet authentic depiction of British pastoral life.\nAkenfield tells the story of a farming family who have lived for generations in the bucolic Suffolk village of the film's title. Real-life local farmer Garrow Shand gives a compelling naturalistic central performance, in three roles, as farmhand Tom Rouse, his father and grandfather; a lineage which has experienced hardship, happiness and love, and struggled with the pressures of mechanisation, world war and shifting social mores.\nA profoundly romantic work of sublime poetic realism, Akenfield boasts compelling performances from its cast of non-professional actors (drawn from the living communities of several Suffolk villages) and a sweeping, rhapsodic orchestral score composed by Michael Tippe2