Friday, 28 September 2018
1108 Cold Comfort Farm
First viewed : 1 January 1995
This was an expensive BBC adaptation of Stella Gibbons' satirical novel of rural life set in a near-future as envisaged in the thirties. It had a stellar cast including Ian McKellen, Stephen Fry, Rufus Sewell, Joanna Lumley and in her first starring role, Kate Beckinsale as the young heroine Flora Poste. I came to it with the feeling that Cold Comfort Farm was a joke that I wasn't quite in on and it's strange that interest in it has survived while the rural novels it mocked have long since fallen into obscurity. Some of that bafflement remained after watching the adaptation.
I was also disconcerted by the strong likeness of Maria Miles who played Elfine Starkadder to a girlfriend I'd recently lost. Miles was cast in a few TV parts around this time then disappeared from the screen for over a decade and there's little information about her on imdb..
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