A Month by the Lake

Description

Enjoy the fun of this sexy comedy winner! At a luxurious lakeside resort, an attractive red-headed guest (Vanessa Redgrave -- THE PLEDGE; GIRL, INTERRUPTED) has her eye on a handsome, well-to-do bachelor. But when he's more interested in a beautiful young flirt (Uma Thurman -- KILL BILL, VATEL), the mischievous redhead goes to outrageous lengths -- including a fling with a passionate younger man -- to reel in her wealthy catch! Filled with laughs and riotous comic confusion -- everyone's sure to love this delightfully sexy comedy!

Customer Reviews:

story going nowhere...........2007-09-06

I was encouraged to see this movie as a prelude to me and my wifes trip to Como. And rightly so, the scenary is nice (not magnificent) and true. It looks like all scenes, including indors, are filmed at location.
But the story and the acting suites as an afternoon tv movie at best. Specially Uma Thurman looks like overplaying every scene.

Beautifully produced, lovely locations, uneven performances.......2007-05-17

This film was made after the blazing and much deserved success of "Enchanted April," a completely bewitching film about English women who rent a villa in Italy without knowing each other beforehand. If you like this at all, see "Enchanted April" - an infinitely superior film.

This film, a woman's film too, has similar beautiful locations, late 1930s, early 1940s settings and style, and a thinner romantic plot at it's core. Vanessa Redgrave and Edward Fox give lovely quiet performances as they meet sweet and irritate each other. Both suffer from middle aged wandering eye to some degree, which drives the plot as we wonder if they will, or will not get together. Unfortunately, neither one of them is a particularly likable character. We are supposed to like Redgrave because she is lanky and lopes along, and we are supposed to like him because SHE finds something redeemable.

Worse, the rest of the cast is extremely uneven in performance, and Thuman turns in her most artificial and posey work. She is lovely and the camera loves her, but she was young, and this is a high school level performance, she seems very ill at ease in this role. By contrast Redgrave's Italian boy interest does a very fine job, perhaps because most of his scenes are with her.

The story is rather predictable, and for classic film fans, we get to see Alida Valli (The Third Man) in her later years. Sadly, her performance is also uneven. When it shows up in so many cast members, one has to attribute this to the Director. Some of them seem to be playing a broad comedy, but the 2 leads are in a refined drama.

For me it was a little too wispy and feels like too much meringe. For many this will be a fine, light entertaining diversion.

oh so boring.......2007-05-13

92 minutes felt like 3 hours - boring and not at all humerous. Lost my attention with in the first 20 minutes.

SPECTACULAR ,SCENERY.......2007-01-04

A VERY WELL ACTED MOVIE, THURMAN IS VERY GOOD IN THIS. THE OUTFITS AND CARS FIT THE PERIOD TO A TEE. THE SCENERY IS QUITE GRAND, IT WANTS TO MAKE YOU GO AND VISIT THAT LOCATION.

Lake Como is beautiful........2006-11-05

Romance, beautiful scenery, an interesting story, and a happy ending - my kind of movie. I bought this copy for a friend who has been to Lake Como and is in love with all of Italy.

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