Based on Love in a Cold Climate and The Pursuit of Love two classic novels by aristocratic writer Nancy Mitford this is a sumptuous and darkly comic costume drama about three upper-class young women and their quest for romance just before World War II. Celia Imrie Alan Bates Sheila Gish Anthony Andrews and Frances Barber hurrah hunt and bitch behind the pot plants but this is more than tweeds cocktails and country houses. It's also a sharp and witty look at the dying days of a particular breed of landed gentry. Based partly on Mitford's own life it captures the highs... and lows of the aristocratic smart set before World War II snuffed out their world forever. Directed by the Oscar winner for the King's Speech - Tom Hooper. [show more]
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All eight episodes of the TV adaptation of the novel series tracing the lives of the wealthy Alconleigh family. Starring Judi Dench, Michael Aldridge and Diana Fairfax and based partially on the real life experiences of novelist Nancy Mitford, the series casts a penetrating eye towards the lifestyle of the English upper class in the years between World War I and II. The Alconleighs are headed by the eccentric Uncle Matthew (Michael Aldridge) and his wife Aunt Sadie (Judi Dench). Their three children, Linda (Lucy Gutteridge), Louisa (Selena Carey-Jones) and Jassy (Yolande Palfrey), try to escape their parents' influence and find love amidst the tumult of inter-war Britain and a changing role for women and the upper class. Episodes are: 'Child Hunt', 'Coming Out', 'Rings and Things', 'The Merry Widower', 'Heir Apparent', 'Foreigners Are Friends', 'Monsieur Le Duc' and 'In Love and War'.
Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play An eight-part adaptation of two classic novels by Nancy Mitford and starring Judi Dench Michael Williams and Michael Aldridge Love in a Cold Climate presents the English upper class of the Twenties and Thirties as seen by one of its most gifted chroniclers The series traces the unconventional lives and loves of the family of Lord Alconleigh dominated by the eccentric irascible Uncle Matthew - an affectionate and only lightly embellished caricature of the Mitford siblings father Lord Redesdale With several scenes drawn from Nancy Mitford s childhood memories (not least her father s alarming penchant for hunting his children with a bloodhound) the story also encompasses the economic and political crises of the Thirties and the upheavals of the Second World War which would ultimately bring to an end the privileged world inhabited by the family Love in a Cold Climate was adapted by novelist and dramatist Simon Raven and directed by Donald McWhinnie (Rumpole of the Bailey)
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