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The Last September is a 1999 British drama film directed by Deborah Warner and produced by Yvonne Thunder from a screenplay by John Banville. It is based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Elizabeth Bowen.
The Last September is a 1929 novel by the Anglo-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen, concerning life in Danielstown, Cork during the Irish War of Independence, at a country mansion. John Banville wrote a screenplay based on the novel; the film adaptation was released in 1999.
- Elizabeth Bowen
- 1929
The Last September. Tom Collins. Synopsis. The action is set in County Cork, in Southern Ireland in 1920. The film is a portrait of the end of an era, and the demise of a class and a way of life that have survived for centuries.
The film is a portrait of the end of an era – British rule in Ireland – and the demise of a class and way of life that survived for centuries. It is also a psychological drama depicting the tensions between love and the longing for freedom, between tradition and the terrifying prospect of independence, both political and spiritual.
Set during the Irish War of Independence in the 1920s, The Last September concerns itself with Lois (Keeley Hawes), a young Anglo-Irish girl whose rebellious spirit causes her to reject respectable British soldier Gerald’s (David Tennant) love for her.
Nov 19, 2021 · Based on Elizabeth Bowen’s 1929 novel of the same name, the film follows Lois (Keeley Hawes), a free spirited young woman from an Anglo Irish family, experiencing her sexual awakening at the dawn of revolution.
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Nineteen-year-old Lois Farquar (Keeley Hawes in a dazzling performance) is visiting her relatives, Sir Richard Naylor (Michael Gambon) and Lady Myra (Maggie Smith), at their large country estate. They are Anglo-Irish aristocrats whose privileged existence is threatened by the struggle for Irish independence from England going on around them.
