Waterland
Drama, Mystery
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1992
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The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.
Director:
Cast:
Same Director
Details
Rated:
R
Runtime:
95 min
Release date:
21 Aug 1992
Country:
GB
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
1 win.
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
A talented but terminally parched piece of literary cinema.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
23 Feb 2012
fresh:
With a dazed, frightened expression and the keen sense that his life is coming undone, Mr. Irons's Tom becomes a rivetingly sad figure, and a sharp focus for the film's many reveries.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
Swift's elegant, descriptive phrases coexist inelegantly with classroom vulgarisms. And there almost making it all work as a portrait in despondency and realization is Irons, a walking requiem to lost innocence.
– Rita Kempley,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
The strange fact about "Waterland" is the way the performances and the dialogue are worthier than the story itself.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
It's a brave endeavour, held together by Robert Elswit's poetic photography, and by Irons' authoritative impression of the crumbling desperation behind the chalk-dusted facade of a pensive history man.
– ,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2006