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- "Dour, eccentric and very funny" Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times "'Cold Comfort Farm' may be hysterically funny to regular readers of Hardy, Lawrence, Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters, but it won't ring many bells for the rest of us."
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May 24, 1996 · The movie, based on the famous comic novel by Stella Gibbons, is dour, eccentric and very funny, and depends on the British gift for treating madness as good common sense.
May 10, 1996 · Cold Comfort Farm may be hysterically funny to regular readers of Hardy, Lawrence, Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters, but it won't ring many bells for the rest of us.
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- John Schlesinger
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Aug 4, 2018 · The dry humor and absurdist slant to the story remained, though, and the result is a deeply charming and funny movie. Although much of the humor stems from the oddball relatives, it never feels mean-spirited or at anyone’s expense.
Kate Beckinsale is charming and Ian McKellen is hilarious in Cold Comfort Farm, a comedy about a young aristocrat shaking up a morbid farm family sometime shortly after World War I. Beckinsale's character steals from Emma a bit, arranging everyone else's love lives and making dreams come true, while remaining a bit on the spoiled-brat side.
Aug 8, 2019 · Cold Comfort Farm hasn't been out of print in its fifty-year history, and there's a reason for that. Our Janet Mullany explores an English comedy classic.
- Janet Mullany
Jun 13, 2016 · But why is this novel funny? Apart from the ludicrousness of the characters, and the gentleness of the plot, and the spectacularly good use of bathos throughout, this book is funny because it restores order out of chaos, and brings pretentiousness to its knees.
Cold Comfort Farm is a 1995 British comedy film directed by John Schlesinger and produced by the BBC and Thames Television, an adaptation of Stella Gibbons' 1932 book of the same name, the film stars Kate Beckinsale, Joanna Lumley, Ian McKellen and Rufus Sewell.
