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Wetherby

“A small town... a random act of violence... an unsolved mystery.”

1985 · 1 h 42 min
Directed by David Hare
DramaMystery

Cast

Vanessa Redgrave Ian Holm Judi Dench

Credits

Written by: David Hare

Plot

In a Yorkshire town, the middle-aged schoolteacher Jean Travers holds a small dinner party for friends. A young man she barely knows, who has turned up uninvited, returns the next day and shoots himself in her house. As the police investigate, the film looks back into Jean's past and the lives of those around her, searching for the cause of the act. David Hare's 1985 directorial debut, with Vanessa Redgrave, won the Golden Bear in Berlin.

Sinekatalog’s take

David Hare's debut follows a Yorkshire teacher whose quiet dinner is disrupted when an uninvited young man shoots himself in her home. Vanessa Redgrave is superb in a chilly, eerie and intelligent study of repression and England.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 6.5 / 10 (1,923 votes)
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